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A special case of the mount functionality is a production mount. This capability is part of the AppSync feature that allows users to mount copies back to a production host, and to an alternate location on that host. Usually, this process would be used to save the overhead of having an extra mount host. In other cases, it could enable recovering a file or object which was damaged on the production database, rather than requiring a restore operation of the entire database. This is known as a surgical restore. In such cases, it is simple to mount a copy to an alternate path on the same production host, selecting necessary objects to manually recover to the production database (restoring at the object level). Otherwise, AppSync restores at the LUN or VG or CG level.