We take an approach that may work for you...We have a recovery domain (restore.domain.com) and of course the production domain of domain.com
When a mailbox server in domain.com goes down, the following occurs. 1. Diagnose the cause of the failure and repair this cause (for example, replace the hardware at issue). 2. If the OS on the mail server in domain.com is not damaged, then copy TLOGS from production server to recovery server (in restore.domain.com) and then reset the databases on the production mail server... this gives everyone e-mail service... but they won't have their old data and won't have their rules. 3. Now recover the production databases using restore.domain.com and the TLOGS that you copied from the production mail server. 4. Once recovered, copy these dbs back to the production server (but use a different name for the files than the production mail server is using for the dbs).. 5. Dismount the reset dbs on the production server, rename these dbs to something else, rename the recovered dbs (the ones you copied) to the correct names and then remount... your users now have their mail up to the point of your failure and their rules back, but are now missing recent e-mail... 6. Copy the reset dbs back to the restore.domain.com domain and then use exmerge to dump this mail to pst files... then exmerge these pst files back into the production... you users now have all mail restored. The link below gives more detail and the MS references for doing this. http://web.umr.edu/~jedg/Work%20Stuff/Exchange_2000/e2k_disaster_recover y_informatio.htm Hope this helps you :) -----Original Message----- From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 8:03 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Mailbox recovery E2K After thinking about it, you are right. If the server does go down and you delete and create a new mailbox on another server the profile would have to be changed or recreated. The reason they wanted to do this was to reduce email outages while the DR team recovered the old mail and made it available via a pst by exmerge. Or some other method. From: "Fyodorov, Andrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Mailbox recovery E2K Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:48:34 -0400 If the original server is down? I am afraid that the user would have to re-configure Outlook profile manually and then log back in, otherwise Outlook will be trying to contact the downed server and time out. Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -----Original Message----- From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:36 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Mailbox recovery E2K I had a question poised to me to which I never thought about or tested. In an E2K/MS2000 domain setup in mixed mode, with muliplte email servers in one group. If one of the servers goes down and all the customer wants to do is restore email flow for those users affected. He would like to know does he just delete the mailbox from the affected users AD account and create new ones on the other email servers? I never tried it? What does the users have to do logout of Outlook? I think deleting mailboxes make new ones and have the users logoff and back may be ok. Thoughts? _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus _________________________________________________________________ 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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] _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 _________________________________________________________________ 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
