We did not. In this scenario the original machine was in the middle of a
smoking, slightly radioactive crater.
--
be - MOS
This is the kind of tool set professionals use. Not only is it
inexpensive, but it also has a great safety feature not found in the
so-called quality tools sets: The handle will actually break right off
if you accidentally hit yourself or anything else, or expose it to
direct sunlight.
-- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 2:50 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Testing Disaster Recovery
>
> Did you rename the original machine (the one being replaced
> in this DR scenario)?
>
> --
> Chris Scharff
> Messaging Services Architect
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > Behalf Of East, Bill
> > Posted At: Friday, January 14, 2005 1:12 PM
> > Posted To: swynk
> > Conversation: Testing Disaster Recovery
> > Subject: Testing Disaster Recovery
> >
> >
> > We just completed our annual DR testing. This was the first
> > year in which we managed to get all of the servers up and
> > running, yay us.
> >
> > One of the things that led to this outcome was the
> > installation of Exchange 2000 SP3 (not Enterprise) with the
> > /disasterrecovery switch. In short, we:
> > * Built a new server with the old server's name, service
> > packed and install the ArghServe client
> > * Ran exchange setup with the aforementioned switch
> > * Ran ArghServe to put the databases back.
> >
> > The only funny thing that happened was after we did the
> > restore. We rebooted and the server refused to go through the
> > Windows startup. We identified this as a SID problem, removed
> > the server from the DC, took it off the network and put it
> > into Workgroup mode, then put it back on the network and
> > rejoined it to the domain. At that point we had to re-add it
> > to about half a dozen domain groups.
> >
> > So my question would be, what steps could we have taken to
> > avoid this little dance, if any? It would save us an hour or
> > so in our DR plan if we could.
> >
> > --
> > be - MOS
> >
> > Fry: I must be a robot. Why else would human women refuse
> to date me?
> > Leela: Oh, lots of reasons.
> >
> >
> >
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