You can obviously do this, but there are a lot of concerns. First off, what would cause a corruption so bad that you need to restore? It's usually something flaky with the disk subsystem. So, if you restore to the same box, you simply are asking for trouble. Of course, you can try to diagnose and fix the hardware problem first and then perform the restore but that will be a rather lenghty outage for your clients. You've got to know what your SLAs are and devise a recovery strategy that will allow you to meet that. If it requires you to purchase additional hardware, than that's what you need to do.
I really prefer to have a standby server ready to go with sufficient disk space, but YMMV. Serdar Soysal -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 1:48 PM To: Exchange Discussions 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]
