Mounting and unmounting a recovery point for granular file and folder recovery

Last published : Apr 02, 2026
Veritas System Recovery 18 Linux Edition creates partition or volume-level recovery points. If you want to restore individual files, folders, and documents, you must first mount the recovery point that includes those files and folders. The Granular File Recovery utility is included with Veritas System Recovery 18 Linux Edition and can be used to mount recovery points. After mounting a recovery point using the Granular File Recovery utility, you can restore individual files, folders, and documents.
While mounting a recovery point, you may experience the following error:
'mount.v2i: error while loading shared libraries: libfuse.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'
In such cases, you should follow the FUSE installation steps before you attempt to mount the recovery point again.
See Installing Fuse.
To mount a recovery point using the Granular File Recovery utility
  1. Open a terminal window (command-line terminal) on the Linux server and log on as a user with mount privileges.
  2. Create an empty directory where you want the recovery point mounted.
  3. Do one of the following:
    To mount a recovery point Enter the following command in a Linux terminal window\:
    mount -t v2i sda1recoverypoint.v2i /mnt/image
    Replace sda1recoverypoint.v2i with the name of the recovery point.
    Replace /mnt/image with the path to the empty directory you created. The recovery point is mounted here.
    Note: If the recovery point is password protected, you must also use the password option and specify the password. For example, if a password was required for sda1recoverypoint.v2i, you would enter the following command and replacepasswordwith the actual password for the recovery point: mount -t v2i sda1recoverypoint.v2i /mnt/image -o password=password System prompts for a password if you attempt to mount a password-protected recovery point without specifying one.
    To mount an incremental recovery point Enter the following command in a Linux terminal window\:
    mount -t v2i sda1recoverypoint_nnn.iv2i /mnt/image
    Replace sda1recoverypoint_nnn.v2i with the name of the incremental recovery point. For example, if you want to mount the fifth incremental recovery point, replace sda1recoverypoint_nnn.iv2i with sda1recoverypoint_005.iv2i.
    Replace /mnt/image with the path to the empty directory you created. The recovery point is mounted here.
    Note: If the recovery point is password protected, you must also use the password option and specify the password. For example, if a password was required for sda1recoverypoint_nnn.iv2i, you would enter the following command and replacepasswordwith the actual password for the recovery point: mount -t v2i sda1recoverypoint_nnn.iv2i /mnt/image -o password=password System prompts for a password if you attempt to mount a password-protected recovery point without specifying one.
To unmount a recovery point
  1. Open a terminal window (command-line terminal) on the Linux server and log on as a user with mount privileges.
  2. Enter the following command in a Linux terminal window:
umount /mnt/image
Replace /mnt/image with the path to where the recovery point is mounted.
See Recovering a Linux computer.
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