Well, the question I posed to management is, "How important is it that in the event of a crash that you bring it up to the time of failure?" They said they are expecting to lose a days worth of data. I'm a consultant here, so I really don't think the company knows or understands what they are saying is okay. I have been trying to draw this attention to my manager to make sure that we are covered. Like I told him "If the company is ok with it, I am ok with it". The other administrator here started debating with me about the fact that it doesn't matter because he would recover everything back to the production box that crashes. I didn't agree this was good practice. I was attempting to get the management to upgrade the restore server. With this debate I'm having with the other admin is causing my boss to think we are covered. That's why I was posting this. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:55 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Restore challenge
Are you saying that you don't have enough $$ to spend on bigger storage? What kind box is this? The 60Gig IDE drives are only $70... Andrew, MCSE (NT & W2K) + CCNA -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Monday, March 18, 2002 10:48 AM Posted To: DiscussionGroup Conversation: Restore challenge Subject: RE: Restore challenge I know this seems like a rather "stupid question". Just in most environments I have worked in, they always had extra server for this. I brought the point up because our company has supplied us with a restore server. The restore server they provided is an old box that does not have enough space or enough power for us to perform a database recovery scenario. I can do a full restore of the database however, in a scenario where the database has been corrupted and you need to run utilities against the database, it usually requires double whatever your database is. We do not have the space. My co-worker stated that instead he would just try to restore/recover on the same server that has corruption. Maybe I'm thinking of this the wrong way and just need to refresh my disaster recovery memory. (I haven't had a crash in more than 4 years). I just thought I would ask opinion here... LaCretia -----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Restore challenge You could restore it to the same box, another box, a PC, a Laptop, whatever. You should DL and read the MS Exchange Disaster Recovery Whitepaper. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 10:34 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Restore challenge I have another co-worker who stated that if our Exchange 5.5 server database crashes, he would simply restore everything back to the same box. Can this be done? In my years of training, I was taught that you need to have another box identical to your production box in the case that you may have a database crash. Please help me put this to rest and let me know your thoughts. Something tells me something is wrong with that plan. LaCretia _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
