The fact that you're asking for help on an incredibly well documented process that has also been beaten to death over the 7-8 years of this lists existance probably garnered you a response you weren't happy with.
There's this really cool document called "The Exchange 5.5 Disaster Recovery Whitepaper, Version 3" which is freely downloadable from Microsoft's web site. Have you even read that? IIRC, you also wanted to do a restore using Backup Exec from a tape created by ArcServe. That can't be done, they're completely different tape formats. You're going to need to get a copy of ArkenServer and use that. Its also possible that CA's new product, Brightstor[1], won't be able to recover the tapes. Your best bet might be to contact some data recovery services to see what options they provide. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. [1] CA follows the adage that once they've out of good will in the marketplace with a product, they'll just rename the product and sell it to a whole new set of unsuspecting dupes > -----Original Message----- > From: labigdawrg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 8:25 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Recovery Help. Request made from a new Exchange Admin. > > > Thank you to Samantha for the kind words and to the "warm" > welcome from the guy whose knowledge on the subject resulted > in no help at all. > > I specifically asked within my post if what my thought > process at the time was logical and could result in a > solution or should I build another Exchange server. If you > read the first part of the message, I clearly stated that it > was my second day on the job. > > I understand that a DR environment is necessary but was not > available and to give a little more information I was not > looking for anyone to do my job but rather some direction > since the 2yr data that needed to be retrieved was for > litigation purposes and should have been done weeks earlier > prior to my new responsibility. Add to that that there is no > DR environment and that the email backups take place on a > remote server that is not running Exchange then maybe you can > see my dilemma. But I thought at the time that I did not need > to include all of this because I did not care to waste anyone's time. > > I may have experience in an area where one day you may need > assistance and just a note to let you know that I will assist > to a degree if I can but I will not waste your time with such > comments as the ones you gave. I am not upset about it but > rather request that if you want to respond to a post then how > about trying to help rather than possibly waste the author's > time as well with hollow words? > > LABD > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
