Thanks Audrey :-) JF
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fyodorov, Andrey FTL Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Disaster recovery 101 question Exchange 2003 I think once you go into a disaster recovery mode and restore stuff onto Server B and start using Server B, this will create a bunch of Server B's transaction logs and there will be a different continuity. I don't think you will then be able to "insert" a series of old transaction logs in there. After Server A crashes, if you still have access to server A's transaction logs, you should then immediately grab them and append them on top of the restore that you will be doing to Server B (if you can still access crashed Server A'd drives). This is why it is important to keep transaction logs on a separate RAID1 volume - you could just yank the disk out of Server A, stick it somewhere else and read the transaction log files and copy them to Server B. Also when restoring data onto Server B, you will need to prevent it from mounting the databases right after the restore, that's because you need to manually copy the day's transaction logs from Server A. Look for "Last backup set" option and for the "Mount after restore" option in your backup/restore program. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:15 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Disaster recovery 101 question Exchange 2003 I also have a transaction log question CONTEXT ==================== I will test the following solution because my customer do not have the budget for Clustering and I think that solution could work. a- Clone Server A (Main ex 2003 server) with PowerQuest v2i imaging software b- restore that image on Server B (the SOS server while server as is beeing repaired) that is simmilar but older Dell Server(good Raid driver though) c- restore the last backup of exchange from tape onto that SOS Server B once the server A is repaired (Physical problem) d- Backup Exchange on server B (image probably ) or BackUPexec backup of the database e- Restore that iamge on server A (or only the exchange databases and logs) We're back in production... ================= My question, after the server A had Hardware problem, there are transaction logs for that day that the server broke. Can those logs be restored without any problem even after the server continued working for a while on server B for a day or 2 and been restored back on server a ???? THANKS ! JF -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:46 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Disaster recovery 101 question Exchange 2003 Hi We're searching for a cost/effective disaster recovery solution in case our Main Ex2003 server HardWare is broken. We have an Ex 2003 server (member server in a 2000/2003 AD (there is a 2003 DC and two 2000 DC) We have a spare server (different hardware than the new exchange 2003 server... This is the old 55 server hardware) and were wondering how to use it in case our ex2003 server crash. How could we use that server just in case the Ex 2003 server CRASH ? I mean, if we join that server to that AD, different servername (exserver02), how can we use it to Restore very fast Exchange 20003 on that server in case the " HARDWARE of the 1st one failed " ? IF I had the budget, I would do some CLUSTERING (By the book) or a cheaper solution would be to clone(create an image with PowerQuest v2i) the ex2003 server every day and would restore that image on the other server(identical hardware) while the 1st one is being repaired. But the other one is an older machine. From what I know we cannont restore an image on a different Server(Hardware) And If I make second server a member of the Exchange org, and that there is not mailboxe on it, if the 1st one crash, the Outlook are linked to the 1st one This is the story... How to use that second server in case of a Hardware failure of the main one, and be up and running very fast.... Instead of being down may be 2 days (the time to place a service call, order the parts and have the tech come at our location ) Thanks a lot.... Jean-Francois Bourdeau MCSE(Exchange) / IBM(PSE) Netgroupes / Microsoft Partner [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISSA Montreal <http://www.issa-montreal.org> Chapter Vice President 514-884-3024 Office Netgroupes, messaging and security architects ! _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. 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