Instead of "can't think of anything going wrong," flip that around and see what you'd do in the worst-case scenario, Exchange and/or AD toasted. Then ask your boss if she/he would rather allocate resources to a scsi card and tape drive, or to recovering from the downtime.
Hunter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:38 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT:exchange restore here's the story- my recovery server does not have a scsi card and i have no spare and this is a needed to be done "yesterday" kinda thing. i have noway to restore the tape backup to the recovery server and i don't want to try some forest trust restore between 2 domains in seperate forests senario. i've racked my head and i can't think of anything going wrong in AD/Exchange Org. the worse that I see happening is that the restore won't work. i can't see this affecting email or AD. can anyone? since its the same admin group, the legacyExchangeDN should be correct and if I use the proper logical names for storage groups/DB's, and have the same sp level, this should work. just long enough to run exmerge and then i'll uninstall exchange(exchange does cleanup AD after itself after an uninstall, doesn't it?) thanks -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 1:21 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT:exchange restore When you build an offline recovery server, you'd want to do it "offline". Away from the existing exchange infrastructure. That is the way I've done it and seen it done, so I've tended to assume that it is "best practice". You do not want to restore into the same environment. The good news is that you could do all of this on one desktop that has enough space to hold the data you are restoring. You make it a DC and Exchange server for this "temporary" assignment. You use the same domain/org/and server name as your existing infrastructure. I have a .doc file named "Build an Offline Exchange 2000 Server in 9 Steps" that I "borrowed" from somewhere. You may want to look at that. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kern, Tom Sent: Thu 1/27/2005 9:56 AM To: ActiveDir (E-mail) Subject: [ActiveDir] OT:exchange restore Hi, i've asked this question in a diff format before, so i apologize. i know you guys are busy and this is OT, but i need to restore an info store in exchange and i don't have the spare hw to set up a recovery forest. my question is- is there any potential issue in creating a new exchange server in my admin group and redirecting the restore to that server using veritas backup exec just to exmerge the mailboxes i need to a pst? Thanks List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
