It is likely easier to use the suggestions to buy a third-party tool. Maybe they can offer you a Katrina discount. But you can accomplish what you want to do without a tool.
I'm assuming you don't want to start over, right? If you haven't done so already, just give everyone a new mailbox so that they can send and receive new e-mail. Restore your domain to an off-line server, then install Exchange with the /disasterrecovery switch, then do the restore. Then you can use exmerge to merge the old data in with the new mailboxes by copying the old data to PSTs, then merging those PSTs into the new mailboxes. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Bishop Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 8:38 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Dial tone restore Ok, I need some assistance here from the best of the best (with a well meaning look at Ed...) We are currently in a declared disaster mode from Hurricane Katrina. We grabbed our backup tapes and ran to the North East to a recovery site. We did a few things wrong at the start. The active directory backup was not restored, and a new domain with the same name was built. (Blame no sleep or documentation) We have been creating email accounts and AD users from lists we had in our SQL databases because getting communications via eMail to users that had evacuated all over the country was top priority. We figured we could restore the old mailboxes later. (Perhaps using exMerge) So we did a dial tone build. The exchange server (2003-SP1) was not named the same as the old Exchange server, nor was the Administrative group. Our NetBackup tapes are fine, we have no problems with restoring databases to the Exchange server, it just won't mount them. (Complains about the mis-named Administrative group) We know that we can restore to a different server with the same Admin names on the same Forest, (We have done that in the past to restore a mailbox), but like I said, our old AD was not restored... We have tried changing the Legacy DN with ADSI edit, but then the current information store fails, so we have to set it back. We may be going about this the wrong way totally, but we are against a wall, and are appealing to the community for some assistance. Oh, and please no flames about testing recovery plans. We are already writing new ones with the full cooperation of the management (finally) Not only has Katrina ruined our homes and our lives, but she is wrecking our minds as well. Any help would be appreciated. - - - End of Line - - - Stephen Bishop Displaced Network Engineer Disaster Recovery Site Somewhere in New York/New Jersey Don't call me, I'll call you when it's fixed... _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
