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Mount Server Requires Space?

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Hey,

I have a short question.
I am trying to do a guest file restore for a VM, which has a disk formatted with ReFS.
Now I have the problem, that the mount server lacks the required Windows Server Version in order to mount the ReFS volume.

Since I now have to set up a new mount server, I am wondering what the mount server does in terms of space.
E.g. I have a VM with two disks; both 1TB of data. The backup of the VM is stored on the backup repository, which is a NAS.
Once I start the guest file restore, the mount server mounts the VM from that backup. But does this mean the 2TB of data are transfered to the mount server so that the whole restoring process is done on the mount server?
Or do the disks stay on the backup repository and the mount server just accesses those resources from the backup repository the whole time?
According to the answer I may have to allocate some space to the mount server.. :)

Thanks guys!
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Re: Mount Server Requires Space?

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Hi, it's the latter. Thanks
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