You don't have to name the recovery server with the same name as the
production server if you're doing a restore of an online backup, and the
recovery server can be on the same network if you install Exchange with the
same organization and site names but do not join the existing site.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Tech Consultant
Compaq Computer Corporation (soon to be HP)
All your base are belong to us.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Chenault
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:38 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: disaster recovery practice?
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?
----- Original Message -----
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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