Since two machines on a network can't have the same name, it would seem
obvious that the recovery server has to be on a separate network, eh?
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From: "Stevens, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:25 AM
Subject: disaster recovery practice?
>
> Today, I decided to be a good exchange mail administrator and practice a
> mailbox recovery using my recovery server. I have already built the
> recovery server, same SP's and fixes, did NOT join the site, but used same
> names. I have done this before with no problem. I put the tape in,
> catalog'd it, and then started the restore (by the way, following step by
> step with the whitepaper!)....however I soon started getting calls about a
> mail problem. It turns out all the services had stopped on the "real"
mail
> server, same one as the one I was doing the restore. It turns out that
> during the restore, the recovery server started writing Directory Service
> transaction logs on the "real" server and this threw off the chronological
> order of the logs which caused the services to fail..we ended up renaming
> the logs to get them in order and everything is back up...
> did I miss something or did someone fail to tell me that the recovery
server
> should not be on the network at the time of the restore?
>
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