RE: Disaster Recovery
Hi James What u could also do is the OST recovery trick! If the users are running in cached mode and the server crashes then client will be unable to connect. However the OST will be in place. You could then export the OST to a PST which will give you a point in time snapshot which you can then restore into the database. Just make sure you don't connect to the client to the restored database before doing the client. Regards [cid:image001.jpg@01CBCDEB.C50F8B50] Peter Johnson I.T Architect United Kingdom: +44 1285 658542 South Africa: +27 11 252 1100 Swaziland: +268 442 7000 Fax:+27 11 974 7130 Mobile: +2783 306 0019 peter.john...@peterstow.com www.peterstow.comhttp://www.peterstow.com This email message (including attachments) contains information which may be confidential and/or legally privileged. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message or from any attachments that were sent with this email, and If you have received this email message in error, please advise the sender by email, and delete the message. Unauthorised disclosure and/or use of information contained in this email may result in civil and criminal liability. Everything in this e-mail and attachments relating to the official business of Peterstow Aquapower is proprietary to the company. Caution should be observed in placing any reliance upon any information contained in this e-mail, which is not intended to be a representation or inducement to make any decision in relation to Peterstow Aquapower. Any decision taken based on the information provided in this e-mail, should only be made after consultation with appropriate legal, regulatory, tax, technical, business, investment, financial, and accounting advisors. Neither the sender of the e-mail, nor Peterstow Aquapower shall be liable to any party for any direct, indirect or consequential damages, including, without limitation, loss of profit, interruption of business or loss of information, data or software or otherwise. The e-mail address of the sender may not be used, copied, sold, disclosed or incorporated into any database or mailing list for spamming and/or other marketing purposes without the prior consent of Peterstow Aquapower. No warranties are created or implied that an employee of Peterstow Aquapower and/or a contractor of Peterstow Aquapower is authorized to create and send this e-mail. [cid:image002.jpg@01CBCDEB.C50F8B50] From: James Bensley [mailto:jwbens...@gmail.com] Sent: 09 February 2011 14:49 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disaster Recovery So I'm looking for peoples thoughts on DR given our current situation; We are a small-to-medium sized non-profit with £0.00 budget (classic!). Our single Exchange 2007 SP3 (Win2k3 r2) server performs nightly system state backups and at the weekend a IS backup, both of these done via NTBackup. So, if we have a hardware failure we can set up a replacement server, reset and bind to the old AD computer account, use the setup recovery mode switch and then run an NT restore of the IS backup to get the DB back up, is this correct? Will anything be missing from this, using the recovery mode switch in the past some settings were missing (CAS I think?), could these be recovered by also restoring the system state backups? Also, because we backup the IS with NT backup, how can I mount our main DB as a recovery storage group if I wanted to restore a mailbox (becaude the main mailbox DB is inside the First Storage Group inside the NT backup file)? In the mean time we export all mailboxes to PSTs as a scheduled task and have in the past restored from the containing folder and gotten everyones mail back but I like dual backups so I want to know how I can make the most of the NT IS backups. Thanks for reading guys n gals :) -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...? --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelistinline: image001.jpginline: image002.jpg
RE: disaster recovery white paper
Title: Message http://www.microsoft.com/Exchange/techinfo/administration/55/BackupRestore.asp -Original Message-From: Cicerrella, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 3:34 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: disaster recovery white paper All, I have a hard copy of "MS Exchange Disaster Recovery" updated for ex ver5.5 written by Kali Buhariwalla and Joseph Pagano but I can't find a copy of it online. It is the paper that discusses everything restoring, eseutils, maintenance and trouble shooting, scenarios, planning. It is a great doc. Can anyone shoot me a url to a download location? thanks, Steve Cicerrella Network/Systems Administrator Spirent Systems - Aerospace Solutions "Focused on the Business of Flight" 858-729-2219 List Charter and FAQ at:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm -- The information contained in this email message is privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copy of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify Veronis Suhler Stevenson by telephone (212)935-4990, fax (212)381-8168, or email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and delete the message. Thank you. ==
RE: disaster recovery white paper
Title: Message Hey thanks much... I was really getting annoyed. :-p steve -Original Message-From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 12:38 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: disaster recovery white paper http://www.microsoft.com/Exchange/techinfo/administration/55/BackupRestore.asp -Original Message-From: Cicerrella, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 3:34 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: disaster recovery white paper All, I have a hard copy of "MS Exchange Disaster Recovery" updated for ex ver5.5 written by Kali Buhariwalla and Joseph Pagano but I can't find a copy of it online. It is the paper that discusses everything restoring, eseutils, maintenance and trouble shooting, scenarios, planning. It is a great doc. Can anyone shoot me a url to a download location? thanks, Steve List Charter and FAQ at:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htmList Charter and FAQ at:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm --The information contained in this email message is privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copy of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify Veronis Suhler Stevenson by telephone (212)935-4990, fax (212)381-8168, or email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and delete the message. Thank you.== List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: disaster recovery white paper
Title: Message www.searchbastard.com http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/administration/55/BackupRestore.asp http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/administration/55/disaster.asp -Original Message-From: Cicerrella, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 12:34 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: disaster recovery white paper All, I have a hard copy of "MS Exchange Disaster Recovery" updated for ex ver5.5 written by Kali Buhariwalla and Joseph Pagano but I can't find a copy of it online. It is the paper that discusses everything restoring, eseutils, maintenance and trouble shooting, scenarios, planning. It is a great doc. Can anyone shoot me a url to a download location? thanks, Steve Cicerrella Network/Systems Administrator Spirent Systems - Aerospace Solutions "Focused on the Business of Flight" 858-729-2219 List Charter and FAQ at:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm ---Incoming mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.380 / Virus Database: 213 - Release Date: 7/24/2002 List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.380 / Virus Database: 213 - Release Date: 7/24/2002
RE: Disaster Recovery
If you build a server on your test LAN that joins your test domain fine then install exchange on it and restore the IS from your production server. Then run the consistency adjuster you should be fine. Don't try to perform a full disaster recovery of a production DC to your test LAN (Full OS, etc.), this will not work. Mark Smith -Original Message- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 11, 2002 4:06 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disaster Recovery I was successful with building a BDC on the network, then removing it from the network and making it the PDC in the lab. That gave me all the correct SAM/SID information, and I had no problems restoring. I just thought there might be some way to restore the Server in a completely separate lab? Technet says that if you do the isinteg -patch and run the consistency adjuster, that you will then have an account with a correct SID in the lab. I must be doing something wrong. Robert -Original Message- From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disaster Recovery Put the PC in the same domain as your production server, but with a DIFFERENT computer name and exactly the same Exchange site and org name (both are case sensitive and don't forget any spaces or punctuation). -Jim Jim Holmgren MCSE, CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Engineer Advertising.com We bring innovation to interactive communication. Advertising.com -- Superior Technology. Superior Performance. -Original Message- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disaster Recovery Exchange 5.5, NT 4.0, Veritas 8.5. I'm trying to build a Test lab for Exchange and test restoring our Exchange backups. I have given the test lab the same Computer Name, Site Name and Organization name. However, I cannot complete a successful restore. I believe this is because the SAM accounts do not match. I've tried just restoring the Information store first, and then running an isinteg -patch, followed by running the consitency adjuster, just like Technet suggested. However, either the Information Store would not start, or I would get a communications error with the Exchange Server. I appear to be running in circles here. Has anybody restored their Exchange site to a Test lab that didn't have a matching SAM or SID? Thanks! Robert List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm *** The information transmitted in this email is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sender and permanently delete the email from any computer. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Disaster Recovery
Title: RE: Disaster Recovery Install Exchange exactly as the production envt. using the same computer name, service account (+password) and Org/Site structure. When restoring do not use the no loss restore option, and the IS should start. Running the consistency adjuster will then create a directory to match the mailboxes restored. The logs from the install and the logs from the restore won't match and the IS won't start. Disabling no loss restore will allow the current logs to be overwritten by those from tape. Randy -Original Message- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 5:06 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disaster Recovery I was successful with building a BDC on the network, then removing it from the network and making it the PDC in the lab. That gave me all the correct SAM/SID information, and I had no problems restoring. I just thought there might be some way to restore the Server in a completely separate lab? Technet says that if you do the isinteg -patch and run the consistency adjuster, that you will then have an account with a correct SID in the lab. I must be doing something wrong. Robert -Original Message- From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disaster Recovery Put the PC in the same domain as your production server, but with a DIFFERENT computer name and exactly the same Exchange site and org name (both are case sensitive and don't forget any spaces or punctuation). -Jim Jim Holmgren MCSE, CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Engineer Advertising.com We bring innovation to interactive communication. Advertising.com -- Superior Technology. Superior Performance. -Original Message- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disaster Recovery Exchange 5.5, NT 4.0, Veritas 8.5. I'm trying to build a Test lab for Exchange and test restoring our Exchange backups. I have given the test lab the same Computer Name, Site Name and Organization name. However, I cannot complete a successful restore. I believe this is because the SAM accounts do not match. I've tried just restoring the Information store first, and then running an isinteg -patch, followed by running the consitency adjuster, just like Technet suggested. However, either the Information Store would not start, or I would get a communications error with the Exchange Server. I appear to be running in circles here. Has anybody restored their Exchange site to a Test lab that didn't have a matching SAM or SID? Thanks! Robert List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm *** The information transmitted in this email is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sender and permanently delete the email from any computer. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Disaster Recovery
Install Exchange exactly as the production envt. using the same computer name, service account (+password) and Org/Site structure. When restoring do not use the no loss restore option, and the IS should start. Running the consistency adjuster will then create a directory to match the mailboxes restored. The logs from the install and the logs from the restore won't match and the IS won't start. Disabling no loss restore will allow the current logs to be overwritten by those from tape. Randy -Original Message- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 5:06 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disaster Recovery I was successful with building a BDC on the network, then removing it from the network and making it the PDC in the lab. That gave me all the correct SAM/SID information, and I had no problems restoring. I just thought there might be some way to restore the Server in a completely separate lab? Technet says that if you do the isinteg -patch and run the consistency adjuster, that you will then have an account with a correct SID in the lab. I must be doing something wrong. Robert -Original Message- From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disaster Recovery Put the PC in the same domain as your production server, but with a DIFFERENT computer name and exactly the same Exchange site and org name (both are case sensitive and don't forget any spaces or punctuation). -Jim Jim Holmgren MCSE, CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Engineer Advertising.com We bring innovation to interactive communication. Advertising.com -- Superior Technology. Superior Performance. -Original Message- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disaster Recovery Exchange 5.5, NT 4.0, Veritas 8.5. I'm trying to build a Test lab for Exchange and test restoring our Exchange backups. I have given the test lab the same Computer Name, Site Name and Organization name. However, I cannot complete a successful restore. I believe this is because the SAM accounts do not match. I've tried just restoring the Information store first, and then running an isinteg -patch, followed by running the consitency adjuster, just like Technet suggested. However, either the Information Store would not start, or I would get a communications error with the Exchange Server. I appear to be running in circles here. Has anybody restored their Exchange site to a Test lab that didn't have a matching SAM or SID? Thanks! Robert List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm *** The information transmitted in this email is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sender and permanently delete the email from any computer. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Disaster Recovery
Put the PC in the same domain as your production server, but with a DIFFERENT computer name and exactly the same Exchange site and org name (both are case sensitive and don't forget any spaces or punctuation). -Jim Jim Holmgren MCSE, CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Engineer Advertising.com We bring innovation to interactive communication. Advertising.com -- Superior Technology. Superior Performance. -Original Message- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disaster Recovery Exchange 5.5, NT 4.0, Veritas 8.5. I'm trying to build a Test lab for Exchange and test restoring our Exchange backups. I have given the test lab the same Computer Name, Site Name and Organization name. However, I cannot complete a successful restore. I believe this is because the SAM accounts do not match. I've tried just restoring the Information store first, and then running an isinteg -patch, followed by running the consitency adjuster, just like Technet suggested. However, either the Information Store would not start, or I would get a communications error with the Exchange Server. I appear to be running in circles here. Has anybody restored their Exchange site to a Test lab that didn't have a matching SAM or SID? Thanks! Robert List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm *** The information transmitted in this email is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sender and permanently delete the email from any computer. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Disaster Recovery
I was successful with building a BDC on the network, then removing it from the network and making it the PDC in the lab. That gave me all the correct SAM/SID information, and I had no problems restoring. I just thought there might be some way to restore the Server in a completely separate lab? Technet says that if you do the isinteg -patch and run the consistency adjuster, that you will then have an account with a correct SID in the lab. I must be doing something wrong. Robert -Original Message- From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disaster Recovery Put the PC in the same domain as your production server, but with a DIFFERENT computer name and exactly the same Exchange site and org name (both are case sensitive and don't forget any spaces or punctuation). -Jim Jim Holmgren MCSE, CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Engineer Advertising.com We bring innovation to interactive communication. Advertising.com -- Superior Technology. Superior Performance. -Original Message- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disaster Recovery Exchange 5.5, NT 4.0, Veritas 8.5. I'm trying to build a Test lab for Exchange and test restoring our Exchange backups. I have given the test lab the same Computer Name, Site Name and Organization name. However, I cannot complete a successful restore. I believe this is because the SAM accounts do not match. I've tried just restoring the Information store first, and then running an isinteg -patch, followed by running the consitency adjuster, just like Technet suggested. However, either the Information Store would not start, or I would get a communications error with the Exchange Server. I appear to be running in circles here. Has anybody restored their Exchange site to a Test lab that didn't have a matching SAM or SID? Thanks! Robert List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm *** The information transmitted in this email is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sender and permanently delete the email from any computer. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Disaster Recovery
Application event log items? William -Original Message- From: Tim Gilroy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:59 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disaster Recovery I am about to be called to another site where an Exchange server has been 'demolished from the sounds of it.' It would appear that a lack of disk space led to the admins trying to move things about including the \inetpub directory without changing any virtual directory settings etc. Thereafter they had problems with the information store and the lack of the M drive EXifs etc. Ultimately it has resulted in a restoration for the backup. But now after a reboot the server is not starting the Information store. It is reporting an access denied message and halting. I provisionally dialed in for a first look last night and confirmed permissions on the NTFS file system. Any thoughts appreciated. Exchange 2000 sp1 Windows 2000 sp1 Veritas Backup Exec SBS Thanks in advance. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Disaster Recovery
Error 5 Access denied. At first I presumed this may be the recovered permissions etc but I have not had a chance to look. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Disaster Recovery Best Practices
What does your domain layout look like? You're going to need a DC at the recovery site if your production site isn't available. What about internet mail? We have 2 sites, both of which have DCs and Exchange servers and internet presence. The backup tapes from each site are rotated to the other. The plan is that if one site becomes unavailable, we would begin recovery from the other site's backup tapes to a spare machine (which could take days). Since we already have Exchange servers up at the recovery site, we can quickly create new mailboxes for people who need to begin communication via email. Laura Bibel Allegheny Energy: Information Services Voice (724) 830-5966 Fax (724) 853-3600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 5:28 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disaster Recovery Best Practices I am interested in the procedures people have in place for disaster recovery on Exchange 5.5. I have read the disaster recovery white paper a number of times but wanted to know what people are doing in the field. The scenario is two servers in production housed in the same location, the disaster recovery plan calls for two servers in another location, which would only need to support a sub-set of the total users. How would you have these servers configured? Would you have one as a member of the production site to maintain the directory in the event of both production servers been unavailable? The remaining server could be used for a short period of time to duplicate the existing site, running in parallel but not the same site and create users on here? What do other people do? Regards, Paul List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Disaster Recovery Best Practices
No directly answering your question but the disaster recovery whitepapers do not tell you to have : Access to an external address (it helps in testing and having people send you emails), Access to this group (better then 99.99% of the classes anyone could take), Access to TechNet disks from years ago Software and reference sources to other connectors you might have (Cisco unity, rightfax,lighting fax, etc) and PSS phone number. ellery july Technical Lead Northwest Area Foundation 332 Minnesota e-1201 St. Paul, MN 55101 email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone - 651-225-3895 fax - 651-225-7695 -Original Message- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 4:28 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disaster Recovery Best Practices I am interested in the procedures people have in place for disaster recovery on Exchange 5.5. I have read the disaster recovery white paper a number of times but wanted to know what people are doing in the field. The scenario is two servers in production housed in the same location, the disaster recovery plan calls for two servers in another location, which would only need to support a sub-set of the total users. How would you have these servers configured? Would you have one as a member of the production site to maintain the directory in the event of both production servers been unavailable? The remaining server could be used for a short period of time to duplicate the existing site, running in parallel but not the same site and create users on here? What do other people do? Regards, Paul List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Disaster Recovery Best Practices
My DR consists of regular Full Backups of my Servers. 1 monthly OFF-LINE Full Backup of my Server. Knowledge and planning of how to recover from a DR. Microsoft PSS as a worse case scenario. The good thing is, they stay with you until you are fully working :) Cheers Simon Weaver NT Domain Administrator Ext. 5544 Tel: 02392-705544 (Direct Dial) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ellery July [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 November 2001 01:49:PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disaster Recovery Best Practices No directly answering your question but the disaster recovery whitepapers do not tell you to have : Access to an external address (it helps in testing and having people send you emails), Access to this group (better then 99.99% of the classes anyone could take), Access to TechNet disks from years ago Software and reference sources to other connectors you might have (Cisco unity, rightfax,lighting fax, etc) and PSS phone number. ellery july Technical Lead Northwest Area Foundation 332 Minnesota e-1201 St. Paul, MN 55101 email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone - 651-225-3895 fax - 651-225-7695 -Original Message- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 4:28 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disaster Recovery Best Practices I am interested in the procedures people have in place for disaster recovery on Exchange 5.5. I have read the disaster recovery white paper a number of times but wanted to know what people are doing in the field. The scenario is two servers in production housed in the same location, the disaster recovery plan calls for two servers in another location, which would only need to support a sub-set of the total users. How would you have these servers configured? Would you have one as a member of the production site to maintain the directory in the event of both production servers been unavailable? The remaining server could be used for a short period of time to duplicate the existing site, running in parallel but not the same site and create users on here? What do other people do? Regards, Paul List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm ... This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. Astrium Limited Gunnels Wood Road Stevenage Hertfordshire SG1 2AS List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Disaster Recovery Test - Failure to start the Information Sto re s ervice
The only thing that I will say is Read and Follow the Disaster Recovery White Paper. If you haven't done that yet, go do it, then come back and ask. If you have read it, read it again. It outlines in EXACT detail every step you need to do in order to do a DR restore as you did (separate LAN). The only thing that is different, IIRC, is that it uses NTBackup to do the restore, which, I believe that you can use also, since you use BackupExec. I can't, as I use Argghhhserve for backups, but NTBackup and BackupExec are compatible with one another. Here is the link to the white paper if you don't have it. http://www.microsoft.com/Exchange/techinfo/administration/55/backuprestore.a sp Ben Winzenz, MCSE Network/Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems, Inc. -Original Message- From: Sethi, Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 6:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:Disaster Recovery Test - Failure to start the Information Store s ervice Hello, I decided to do a DR test today but unfortunately could not get the IS service to start after the restore. Below are my steps in the exact order: Current Exchange server running 5.5 with sp4 on a windows 2k server 1.Setup a separate Lan and promoted a bdc that I took off from our existing network to a pdc. 2.Ran setup of Exchange 5.0. Did not join existing domain. 3.Gave the server the same name as the orginal exchange server, the same site and organization names as the existing exchange server. (Understanding that the site and organization names are case-sensitive) 4.Created a new site. 5.Selected the same service account as the original exchange server 6.Did a directory Import from the most current directory.csv file 7.Upgraded recovery server to Exchange 5.5 then SP 4. (same as original server) 8.Ran MS Exchange performance optimizer 9.Deleted and re-added the computer name on the pdc to create a new sid. (After readding computer I was forced to remove the recovery server from the domain and then re-add it to the domain) 10.Installed MS Outlook on recovery server. 11.Performed the restore using the last full backup tape (Used Veritas Backup Exec ver 8.6). Restored only the Information Store not the Directory since that was already imported in step 6. (Note: I normally do a brick level backup so the tape consisted of the Directory store, Info store, and part of the individual mailboxes. The second tape contained the remainder of the mailboxes) The info store was approximately 33gb. 12.Restored both Priv and Pub data by selecting them on the Exchange tab in Veritas backup exec ver 8.6. 13. Once the restore was completed the Diretory, MTA, System Attendent all started but the Info store would not start. Also I could not do an isinteg -patch because it could not find the IS database. 14. I manually tried to start the IS service but received the error: Windows could not start the MS IS service on the local computer and to check the Event viewer for more info. The Event Viewer said: MS IS service terminated with server specific error 4294966266. 15. Im going to check the knowledge base regarding this error but im curious if any has ever come across this? Did I not do a step right? Should I have not imported the Directory store in step 6? Im a little stumped as to what I did wrong causing the IS not to start. Anyone have any ideas??? Thanks, List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Disaster Recovery Test - Failure to start the Information Sto re s ervice
You've probably found it by now, but have a look at Q224977. Karen -Original Message- From: Sethi, Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 September 2001 23:29 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disaster Recovery Test - Failure to start the Information Store s ervice Hello, I decided to do a DR test today but unfortunately could not get the IS service to start after the restore. Below are my steps in the exact order: Current Exchange server running 5.5 with sp4 on a windows 2k server 1.Setup a separate Lan and promoted a bdc that I took off from our existing network to a pdc. 2.Ran setup of Exchange 5.0. Did not join existing domain. 3.Gave the server the same name as the orginal exchange server, the same site and organization names as the existing exchange server. (Understanding that the site and organization names are case-sensitive) 4.Created a new site. 5.Selected the same service account as the original exchange server 6.Did a directory Import from the most current directory.csv file 7.Upgraded recovery server to Exchange 5.5 then SP 4. (same as original server) 8.Ran MS Exchange performance optimizer 9.Deleted and re-added the computer name on the pdc to create a new sid. (After readding computer I was forced to remove the recovery server from the domain and then re-add it to the domain) 10.Installed MS Outlook on recovery server. 11.Performed the restore using the last full backup tape (Used Veritas Backup Exec ver 8.6). Restored only the Information Store not the Directory since that was already imported in step 6. (Note: I normally do a brick level backup so the tape consisted of the Directory store, Info store, and part of the individual mailboxes. The second tape contained the remainder of the mailboxes) The info store was approximately 33gb. 12.Restored both Priv and Pub data by selecting them on the Exchange tab in Veritas backup exec ver 8.6. 13. Once the restore was completed the Diretory, MTA, System Attendent all started but the Info store would not start. Also I could not do an isinteg -patch because it could not find the IS database. 14. I manually tried to start the IS service but received the error: Windows could not start the MS IS service on the local computer and to check the Event viewer for more info. The Event Viewer said: MS IS service terminated with server specific error 4294966266. 15. Im going to check the knowledge base regarding this error but im curious if any has ever come across this? Did I not do a step right? Should I have not imported the Directory store in step 6? Im a little stumped as to what I did wrong causing the IS not to start. Anyone have any ideas??? Thanks, List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Re: Disaster Recovery Test - Failure to start the Information Store s---ervice
First isinteg -patch second, buy the Intelligent Disaster Recovery Option for Backup Exec. Make IDR Bootable Disks, CD or Tape, pop them in recovery server (unplug network connection) click a few buttons and you're set. It'll save you a lot of time, hair pulling-out and will have your server EXACTLY the way it was pre-disaster. Hello, I decided to do a DR test today but unfortunately could not get the IS service to start after the restore. Below are my steps in the exact order: Current Exchange server running 5.5 with sp4 on a windows 2k server 1.Setup a separate Lan and promoted a bdc that I took off from our existing network to a pdc. 2.Ran setup of Exchange 5.0. Did not join existing domain. 3.Gave the server the same name as the orginal exchange server, the same site and organization names as the existing exchange server. (Understanding that the site and organization names are case-sensitive) 4.Created a new site. 5.Selected the same service account as the original exchange server 6.Did a directory Import from the most current directory.csv file 7.Upgraded recovery server to Exchange 5.5 then SP 4. (same as original server) 8.Ran MS Exchange performance optimizer 9.Deleted and re-added the computer name on the pdc to create a new sid. (After readding computer I was forced to remove the recovery server from the domain and then re-add it to the domain) 10.Installed MS Outlook on recovery server. 11.Performed the restore using the last full backup tape (Used Veritas Backup Exec ver 8.6). Restored only the Information Store not the Directory since that was already imported in step 6. (Note: I normally do a brick level backup so the tape consisted of the Directory store, Info store, and part of the individual mailboxes. The second tape contained the remainder of the mailboxes) The info store was approximately 33gb. 12.Restored both Priv and Pub data by selecting them on the Exchange tab in Veritas backup exec ver 8.6. 13. Once the restore was completed the Diretory, MTA, System Attendent all started but the Info store would not start. Also I could not do an isinteg -patch because it could not find the IS database. 14. I manually tried to start the IS service but received the error: Windows could not start the MS IS service on the local computer and to check the Event viewer for more info. The Event Viewer said: MS IS service terminated with server specific error 4294966266. 15. Im going to check the knowledge base regarding this error but im curious if any has ever come across this? Did I not do a step right? Should I have not imported the Directory store in step 6? Im a little stumped as to what I did wrong causing the IS not to start. Anyone have any ideas??? Thanks, List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Re: Disaster Recovery 2
I'd whack the databases and log files before doing the second recovery. Missy - Original Message - From: Bill Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 4:10 PM Subject: RE: Disaster Recovery 2 Restoring your tape from April should work, as long as the version and service packs were the same as they are now... I have had difficulty restoring older tapes if the service pack at the time of backup is different then the service pack at time of restore -Original Message- From: Sethi, Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:59 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disaster Recovery 2 Hello All, Note: Exchange Server 5.5 SP4 Windows 2000 SP1 Recovery Server and Production Exchange server have identical Exchange server, Windows 2k server and service packs. I have just successfully completed a DR test using the last full backup tape (Friday's tape). My manager would like me to do another test but this time using a full backup tape from April 2001. He said that back in July they lost some public folder data and could not recover it and was wondering if I could do another DR test using an older tape. My question is this. Should I reinstall Exchange and do all the steps over again? Can I just restore the IS and DS from April and would it overwrite the current one? What is the best way to go about performing the next DR test? Thanks, List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
