Hi Guys, Thanks for the previous advice on this one. Just to let you know
I went back to an earlier tape and everything restored fine. Thanks again David From: David Lloyd [mailto:da...@future-support.com] Sent: 05 August 2012 14:03 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Both disks fail RAID1 Hi guys, Well, I had the Dell engineer in and confirmed that both disks had indeed failed. Both have been replaced along with a new controller. However, I'm having some real problems restoring the server back into the organisation. To cut a long story short, my restore procedures from tape have not worked and have had to re-build the server with the same name and have attempted to re-install exchange with the /disasterrecovery switch. However, when I select the Component selection (messaging and collaboration Services) it gives the error The component "Microsoft Exchange Messaging and Collaberation Services" cannot be assigned the action "Install" because: - A server object for this server ("server_name") already exists in the Administrative Group "Administrative_Group_name". You must either remove this server object before installing, or run setup with the "DisasterRecovery" switch if you are attempting to recover this server. After searching around I found the following article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298068 Now I do have another exchange server in the same administrative group, however all the mailboxes and public folders are on the failed server, as at some stage in the past all mailboxes where moved across from it. Looking at the article I presume I have to remove the failed server from the group using the AD sites and services snap in. However, I have some concerns taking this action as it states that it brings my AD to a pre-forestprep state and I have to then run the install without the DR switch. I'm wondering what exactly will be the consequences to this action in terms of users being able to access their old mailboxes when I do finally get this exchange server back online. My databases from this server are fine and intact, it seems that the OS and system state backups are not. Any help/advice would be really appreciated. David From: David Lloyd [mailto:da...@future-support.com] Sent: 01 August 2012 23:11 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Both disks fail RAID1 I phoned Dell when I got onsite originally and went through this procedure and it didn't work unfortunately. I also requested a new controller as my confidence in the one in there has been destroyed. Thus, tomorrow I will have a new controller and 2 new hard disks. Thanks guys for your input on this, its really appreciated. David From: Durkin, Rob [mailto:durk...@pdc.us] Sent: 01 August 2012 21:57 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Both disks fail RAID1 David, We had a similar issue with a Dell PE 2850 server. You may consider attempting to bring the volume back online before restoring from backup. With a mirrored set, pull one of the drives, then boot into the RAID BIOS app, and bring the RAID set back online. Boot up the server, after it is booted up, then you reinstall the second disk and rebuild the mirror. If you try to bring the set back online with both disks present it can lead to corrupt data and also lead to the restore failing over and over. Dell tech support can walk you through it. It seems to me it's a RAID controller issue, not a failed disk issue. -Rob From: David Lloyd [mailto:da...@future-support.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 12:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Both disks fail RAID1 Hi Guys, Windows 2003 SP2, Exchange Server 2003 SP2 Arrived on site to find a Dell Windows 2003 exchange member server down. Both disks in RAID 1 configuration failed. This Exchange server is the second exchange server in the same site, but holds all the mail boxes and public stores on a RAID 5 volume, this looks intact. Backup looks to have completed a few hours before failure and from what I can see the exchange databases were also backed up. Plan to restore the system volume from tape, however, there will be no log file directories as these are not backed up as part of the system backup. The rest of the exchange installation is backed up, and looks like just the log file directories where omitted. My question. Is it possible to recreate these or will I have to re-install exchange in DR mode and then try to mount the databases? 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