exchange 5.5 recovery of edb's on a different server ? 1

[RaceAap]

Hi there,

My windows nt 4.0 with excahgne 5.5 crashed

As the backup device recently crashed i have no backup of the database in Arcserve or any backup system.

Is it possible to install a new server with exchange 5.5 put the edb's to this new server and use the recovery util's to get all setting's and mailboxes back?

Thanx,

Lon

 

[Shadow97]

I think you're looking for this...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q183266

 

[bofhrevenge2]

RaceAap have you tried this yet and if so was it as easy as it looks?

A friend of mine is having similar trouble.

Thanks.

 

[RaceAap]

I'm back online again

I took a workstation and installed NT 4.0 server on it as a backup domein controller, then exchange 5.5 with all service pakcs and patches I had on the old server.

Stopped ALL Exchange services and copied ALL exchange 5.5 directories from the harddisk of the crashed server to this workstation. So infact I have Overwritten the newly installed files with the crashed one's..

Then started the Exchange services again, as expected the store and mta did not start.
I ran: "ISINTEG -PATCH" from the commandline and started the last services from exchange and it was running again with ALL old mailboxes and settings.

This test told me that I could install Nt 4.0 on the old server in a different folder and rename the old exchange folders before I installed exchange in this new nt4 installation.
Then the same drill started again as on the workstation: stopping ms exchange services, copy old files over the new files, start services, run "isinteg -patch" and startup again...

The result is that my "old" server is running with a fresh NT 4.0 server install.. it's FASTER as before !!!!

For now the Intel P3 800Mhz,512Mb, 36Gb-Raid5 perfoms very good again...

Thanx,

Lon

 

[bofhrevenge2]

Excellent.