Well for GOD's SAKE don't use GoExchange. Sheesh! Bill, I've successfully done #1, but your situation may be different. What caused the problem in the first place? If you restore to the same datastore without correcting the problem that caused this in the first place, your only delaying another failure. Another solution would be to install Exchange on another box if hardware is available and restore to that, then redo the original box and migrate the users over gracefully. Performing an ExMerge could cause problems and loss of some email. By nature of how it works, Exmerge will not export an email within an email and some attachments as well. Your best bet is to restore to a different store. My 2 Cents!
________________________________ From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:38 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: to RSG or to not RSG I find myself needing to restore my entire datastore. The question is, is it better to: 1) Restore the database directly to the First Storage Group or 2) Restore to a recovery storage group and use exmerge to bring the data up to date or 3) Restore to a recovery storage group, dismount both stores and copy the recovered files to the live location or 4) Use an entirely different plan of which I'm as yet unaware It is perfectly acceptable to bring the datastore offline. What are the pros and cons of each strategy? My biggest concerns are stability and integrity of the final data, and total time spent by yours truly. I'm running Exchange 2003 SP2 and NtBackup. I'm leaning toward number 1, but that's probably because I'm more familiar with exchange 2000 than X2K3 and that was the only way then. Thanks for any insights, Bill Songstad ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
