Exchange Restore 1

[Ashish2002]

Hey Group,

We are doing a disaster recovery test this weekend. I currently backup the system state and information store on my Exchange 2000 server. Well, my question is, how would I restore it on a different machine with different hardware. Do I need to install Exchange 2000 on that new machine and restore or just restore the system state and the information store. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Thanks!
Ash

 

[jbud]

What is the goal of the test? Do you want to restore and mount an information store? Or, do you want to recreate the Exchange server from scratch using your other hardware?

 

[Ashish2002]

jbud,

My goal is to restore and mount the information store and have e-mail up and running in a totally different network.

 

[jbud]

Microsoft's DR documentation talks a lot about keeping the hardware the same for the recovery box. You can their white paper on it at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=5B7D2110-A322-4947-9EAF-3D6A9A99CB42

To distill a little, to successfully restore and mount the DBs you will need:

Same OS and Service Pack (including hotfixes).
Same Exchange Service Pack (including hotfixes).
Install Exchange w/ same Organization Name.
Install Exchange into the same Administative Group Name.
Must use the same Storage Group Name.
Must use the same Database Names (including filesystem path)
Must use the same LegacyExchangeDN.

As you can no doubt already tell, many of these values are kept in AD. So, if you have the spare hardware, you'll want to restore a DC, also.

 

[Ashish2002]

Thanks a lot jbud. Appreciate all your help.
Thanks!
Ash