I've done it more than once, too..
You have to run an IS/DS adjustment following the restore, then add
instances of the PF's in question to the recovery server, before you can
access the data, but it works.
I thought it strange that the 5.5 Disaster Recovery docs don't cover the
process.
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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE MCT
Senior Systems Administrator
Peregrine Systems
Atlanta, GA
http://www.peregrine.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: missy koslosky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 12:14 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: Re: disaster recovery practice?
>
>
> You restored all of pub.edb to a different server on the network?
>
> M
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chinnery Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 11:57 AM
> Subject: RE: disaster recovery practice?
>
>
> But isn't that only in certain instances? I recovered a
> public folder (with
> the generous help/advice of some of the people on this list)
> last week. The
> recovery server was on the network and I simply redirected
> the store to that
> server.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: missy koslosky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 11:51 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: Re: disaster recovery practice?
>
>
> Unfortunately, that doesn't work. An admin I once worked
> with found this
> out the hard way... The recovery server needs to be on a
> different network
> than the original server.
>
> Missy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Matteson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 11:38 AM
> Subject: RE: disaster recovery practice?
>
>
> Did you redirect your restore to the restore server and not the "real"
> Exchange server?
>
> John Matteson; Exchange Manager
> Geac Corporate Infrastructure Systems and Standards
> (404) 239 - 2981
>
> ...the words that I remember from my childhood still are
> true, that there
> are none so blind as those who will not see....
> --The Moody Blues (I know you're out there)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stevens, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 11:26 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> 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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