When you back up a source volume using SnapVault, the volume is backed up to a qtree on the secondary storage system; therefore, any qtrees in the source volume become directories in the destination qtree.
Limitations to backing up a volume to a qtree
Quota information from the qtrees in the source volume is not saved when they are replicated as directories in the destination qtree.
If the qtrees in the source volume had different qtree security styles, those security styles are lost in the replication to the destination qtree and are replaced by the security style of the volume.
SnapVault cannot restore the data back to a volume. When restoring data, what was a source volume is restored as a qtree. For a process to restore data, see “Restoring the qtree to the original volume structure.”