RE: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors.

[Carl Houseman]

If the Exchange store is unaffected by the bad sectors, you could
temporarily attach a sufficiently large (external?) drive, move the store to
the temporary drive, replace bad drives with healthy drives, and then move
the store to the healthy drives.  Not nearly as much trouble as backup /
uninstall / re-install / restore I'd think, but that depends on the speed
and connection method for the temporary drive vs. the speed of the
backup/restore media.  

 

And if you can install healthy drive(s) alongside the unhealthy one, then
you could just move the database one time.

 

Carl

 

From: Stephan Barr [mailto:stephanbarr.li...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 4:08 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
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? 

RE: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors.

[Michael B. Smith]

Sure, as long as it is a full/complete backup.

Sent from my HTC Tilt™ 2, a Windows® phone from AT&T


From: Stephan Barr 
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 4:09 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
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?

Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors.

[Stephan Barr]

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?

Re: Recover Switch

[James Bensley]

On 26 July 2010 15:10, Michael B. Smith  wrote:
> I recommend you use a utility such as Partition Manager.

Yes well we do own a copy of EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition so
hopefully I can just resize all our volumes and carry on as normal but
obviously I need to prepare for the worst!

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RE: Recover Switch

[Michael B. Smith]

I wouldn't hesitate to do it, but if you've never done it before - you should 
do it in the lab first.

I recommend you use a utility such as Partition Manager.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

-Original Message-
From: James Bensley [mailto:jwbens...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:48 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Recover Switch

I had thought ADSIEDIT could probably resolve any issues regarding different 
drive letters etc.

We are looking to use the recover switch after formatting our server to 
rearrange the partitions. It initially has two partitions; the system and EDB 
partition. The EDB partition is massive and the system partition too small so 
we wish increase the system partition and split the EDB partition into multiple 
smaller partitions however those two at least, will retain the same drive 
letters so paths should remain the same.

Can any of you guys confirm you have performed this action or know of such an 
occurrence?

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Re: Recover Switch

[James Bensley]

I had thought ADSIEDIT could probably resolve any issues regarding
different drive letters etc.

We are looking to use the recover switch after formatting our server
to rearrange the partitions. It initially has two partitions; the
system and EDB partition. The EDB partition is massive and the system
partition too small so we wish increase the system partition and split
the EDB partition into multiple smaller partitions however those two
at least, will retain the same drive letters so paths should remain
the same.

Can any of you guys confirm you have performed this action or know of
such an occurrence?

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RE: Recovering messages from Exchange server 2007 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Peter Johnson]

Do you have the request in e-mail? Keep it just in case :)

Regards
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From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 23 July 2010 15:45
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Recovering messages from Exchange server 2007 (UNCLASSIFIED)

It was requested by a director and the Chief exec, so I'm presuming my backside 
is proverbially covered.
On 23 July 2010 14:38, Kent, Larry CTR US USA 
mailto:larry.k...@us.army.mil>> wrote:
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE
I would make sure that you have management's approval or your company lawyer's 
approval. You can't legally view all of someone's email without reasonable 
cause, even if it is on company owned equipment.  Even then your search/viewing 
must be limited to whatever search criteria you are looking for.

From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 9:21 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Recovering messages from Exchange server 2007

Do you have any sort of edge device or a similar service?  I often recover 
messages for users from our Barracuda.  (We also relay outbound messages 
through it to take advantage of the invalid bounce suppression feature.)

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:14 AM, John Bowles 
mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org>> wrote:
You can track messages, but you cannot view the contents of the message.  
That's if you have message tracking already enabled prior to these messages 
having  been sent/received.


John Bowles


From: James Rankin [kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 8:36 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Recovering messages from Exchange server 2007
Is anything usable in the message tracking tool?
On 23 July 2010 13:25, John Bowles 
mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org>> wrote:
Can only do that if you have journaling installed or if you have a viable email 
archiving solution.


John Bowles


From: James Rankin [kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 7:59 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Recovering messages from Exchange server 2007
Greetings Exchange gurus

What's the easiest way to view all messages that were sent by a particular user 
on a particular day in the past week? I need this for some cloak-and-dagger 
investigative purposes - I suppose I could just grant myself permissions to the 
user's mailbox and forward myself all their Sent Items, but a) would they be 
able to tell I'd done this? and b) I'm assuming this wouldn't cover any stuff 
they may have permanently deleted?

I presume there must be other ways to achieve this - I apologise for my lack of 
Exchange knowledge, I am not an Exchange bod by any stretch of the imagination.

TIA,



JRR

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machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly 
to apprehend the kind of confusion 

RE: Recover Switch

[Peter Johnson]

Correct. In fact IIRC you can change the absolute paths in AD, using ADSIEDIT 
and the restored databases will still mount.

Regards
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I.T Architect
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-Original Message-
From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] 
Sent: 26 July 2010 15:17
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Recover Switch

James,

I believe it only refers to what you say i.e. drive letters and paths must be 
the same. The size of the disks themselves, I would have though, are irrelevant.

I also wouldn't think it would be a problem if you have extra drives 
configured, so long as Exchange can find the disks it expects to be there.

Regards

Richard

-Original Message-
From: bounce-9032115-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com 
[mailto:bounce-9032115-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of James 
Bensley
Sent: 26 July 2010 13:54
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Recover Switch

Can anyone confirm their use of the recover switch when re-installing exchange 
after say a server death for example, and you don't wish to set up everything 
all over again and AD has already had the required schema updates etc you just 
want to pull the configuration back out of AD and restore a copy of you EDB...

Basically my problem with the recover switch is that according to the 
documentation you must have the exact same storage arrangement. But is this 
only true of the system partition and wherever the EDB lives; i.e. if the dead 
server is replaced with a newer server with more space, that would be pointless 
if the recover switch would only let me have the exact same partition layout.

Does anyone know if there is any way around this?

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RE: Recover Switch

[Sobey, Richard A]

James,

I believe it only refers to what you say i.e. drive letters and paths must be 
the same. The size of the disks themselves, I would have though, are irrelevant.

I also wouldn't think it would be a problem if you have extra drives 
configured, so long as Exchange can find the disks it expects to be there.

Regards

Richard

-Original Message-
From: bounce-9032115-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com 
[mailto:bounce-9032115-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of James 
Bensley
Sent: 26 July 2010 13:54
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Recover Switch

Can anyone confirm their use of the recover switch when re-installing
exchange after say a server death for example, and you don't wish to
set up everything all over again and AD has already had the required
schema updates etc you just want to pull the configuration back out of
AD and restore a copy of you EDB...

Basically my problem with the recover switch is that according to the
documentation you must have the exact same storage arrangement. But is
this only true of the system partition and wherever the EDB lives;
i.e. if the dead server is replaced with a newer server with more
space, that would be pointless if the recover switch would only let me
have the exact same partition layout.

Does anyone know if there is any way around this?

-- 
Regards,
James.

http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/

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Vigesimal, and J others...?

Recover Switch

[James Bensley]

Can anyone confirm their use of the recover switch when re-installing
exchange after say a server death for example, and you don't wish to
set up everything all over again and AD has already had the required
schema updates etc you just want to pull the configuration back out of
AD and restore a copy of you EDB...

Basically my problem with the recover switch is that according to the
documentation you must have the exact same storage arrangement. But is
this only true of the system partition and wherever the EDB lives;
i.e. if the dead server is replaced with a newer server with more
space, that would be pointless if the recover switch would only let me
have the exact same partition layout.

Does anyone know if there is any way around this?

-- 
Regards,
James.

http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/

There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand
Vigesimal, and J others...?