Assuming you did an Exchange aware backup (meaning you did an online backup of the information store), you should be able to restore to a non-cluster Exchange box. Exchange itself doesn't care about the cluster itself.
Roger -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Kern, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 3:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD disaster recovery > > > i've been through it. It very good and the place to start for > exchange dr, but they don't provide any info on restoring a > cluster to a non-cluster and any special things one might > have to do. I'm pretty sure i should remove the old virtual > server from AD and completelty reinstall exchange without the > disasterrecovery switch. If i just restore exchange from > tape, it will have the cluster aware dll's and probably fail > when there is no cluster servcie running.. > anyhoo, i just thought someone out there might know of a good > doc explaining such a senario. > Thanks for all your help! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mulnick, Al [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 3:14 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD disaster recovery > > > I see. You'll want to bring up the laptop off-network, use > NTDSUTIL to > remove the dc's (make it alone in the world), verify it's working as > expected, and then dcpromo the new dc up. Should be fine. > You'll want to > remove the laptop DC from the production network with > ntdsutil as well as a > cleanup activity. > > As for Exchange, you'll want to see the disaster recovery > documentation on > the website. http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/library for > some detailed > information. > > Al > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kern, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 2:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD disaster recovery > > my steps are as follows- > i have a laptop with AD on it on site. I plan on taking the > laptop to the > recovery site and forcing a transfer of FSMO roles(as this is > something i > don't want to gracefully do here and botch my network. > Then i plan on installing another win 2k server and running > dcpromo on it. > This server will have the same name as my dc back on site. I > don't need to > restore the system state as the dc back on site is only a dc > and has some > home dirs on it. i will only restore the home dirs. > My question was, will AD complain about bring up a server > with the same > name? should I delete this server from the domain controllers > OU or run > ntdsutil and expunge any entry in AD for this server? This > server back on > site held all three fsmo roles for the domain. > > Finally, and i know this is off topic and i apologize but i > haven't gotten > any response from the exchange-admin list server, but does > anyone know of > any good documentation on restoring an active/passive > exchange 2k clustered > server to a non clustered box. > Is it just deleting the virtual server object with adsiedit > and then doing a > fresh install of exchange(making sure the server has the same > name as the > virtual server and the legacy dn of the admin group is > identical) and just > restore the info store? > > Thanks and sorry for being so damn wordy. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mulnick, Al [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:15 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD disaster recovery > > > I would guess that you'll still have to remove the previuosly > existing DC's > regardless but it's hard to tell what steps you're planning exactly. > > al > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kern, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 9:51 AM > To: ActiveDir (E-mail) > Subject: [ActiveDir] AD disaster recovery > > We're doing a DR test run of AD. We go to another location and try to > restore our network from tape backup(Veritas 8.6). > Each time we've run into serious issues when restoring AD to different > hardware(this is all our DR site provides) and have never > been able to get > up and running. > So this time, I want to put AD on a laptop, give it a few > days to replicate > with our network, then take the laptop with me to the DR site, force a > transfer of all the FSMO roles, and restore that way. > Also, for the other DC's, I just want to set up new domain > controllers with > the same names and not restore the system state, i,e; AD. > Just app specfic > stuff and home directories. > Does anyone see a problem with this? > Will I run into issues with GUID's not matching or USN's? > We are also planning on restoring an Exchange 2k server. > Any help or advice, war stories, would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
