Sorry for delays in responding. I'm actually on vacation this week. Only looking at email once a day.
Exchange 2003 supports a level of what's called "database portability", Exchange 2007 improved on this, and Exchange 2010 uses a completely different mapping mechanism. Regardless, a proper restore cares about the storage group, administrative group, and Exchange organization. For more information on the various scenarios, see <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997006(EXCHG.65).aspx> Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:26 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors. You're right about the /disasterrecovery situation. On your question re: GUID mismatches, since MBS approved the idea and has also advised in the past, to uninstall and re-install Exchange around a dcpromo event, that a proper restore cares only about the server name and the availability of storage at the same drive letters. But I have not run that particular lab experiment. From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 5:00 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors. Well, the OP said "uninstall and reinstall Exchange". If he uninstalls Exchange, the /DisasterRecovery switch will do no good at all. From: bounce-9034484-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-9034484-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Carl Houseman Sent: 27 July 2010 21:46 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors. Not if you re-install Exchange with the /DisasterRecovery switch. From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:24 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors. Won't uninstalling Exchange completely invalidate any existing backups that you want to restore? Database GUID mismatches etc.. From: bounce-9032628-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-9032628-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: 26 July 2010 22:17 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors. Sure, as long as it is a full/complete backup. Sent from my HTC Tilt(tm) 2, a Windows(r) phone from AT&T ________________________________ From: Stephan Barr <stephanbarr.li...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 4:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues <exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors. Server has two physical drives, OS on C: and Exchange on D:. D: is reporting bad sectors so can't image it. If I recall correctly, can't I get a backup of the stores then uninstall and reinstall Exchange on healthy drives and then restore the Information store?
