It's feasible, but then you would also have to restore the system state of the Exchange server before doing the4 Exchange restore?
Question to ask management: how long can Exchange be down before it starts to really hurt the business. I suspect you will find the answer is less than the amount of time it will take to restore to the new server from back up even if it goes smoothly the first time. Get yourself something like Double Take which can replicate all of the data in real time to the standby server. If your main server dies you will be back up and running in about 4 minutes from the time you tell it to failover. Way cheaper than a cluster and a lot less overhead to maintain. HTH Clayton Doige IT Project Manager CME Development Corporation T: 020 7430 5355 M: 07949 255062 E:[EMAIL PROTECTED] W:www.cetv-net.com From: Andy Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 August 2008 10:36 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2003 disaster recovery I have inherited a network with 2 Windows 2000 file servers and a Windows 2003 server running exchange 2003 enterprise edition. There is also a "spare" server labelled "mail dr" which I believe was going to be used as a disaster recovery server in the event of a failure in the main mail server. Both the mail server and the mail dr server have the same tape drive in them. Allegedly the previous admin was going to configure the mail dr server so that he could use the previous night's backup to restore the data onto the server and everything would be back to normal relatively quickly. Does this sound feasible? And if so is there any documentation on the steps involved Thanks Andy Lawrence This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl <http://www.blackspider.com/> ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This electronic mail message and any attached files contain information intended for the exclusive use of the person(s) to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is proprietary, privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any viewing, copying, disclosure or distribution of this message or its contents may be subject to legal restriction or sanction. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by electronic mail and delete the original message and any attachments without retaining any copies. _____________________________________________________________________ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
