You clever little nimrod... As I read this, I howled with unholy glee as I
thought, "Sounds like he had the recovery server on the network! HAW!"
Then came your last line. Whatta gem.
Anyway, Dave, no, you're not supposed to have the backup server on the
network when you do a recovery if the main server is still online and
functional.
I bet you can already look back on this and *laugh, laugh, laugh.* I know I
can.
(:=
Great Cthulhu Jones
CEO, R'lyeh Consulting
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stevens, Dave
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:26 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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