Never had to do this but my guess would be to do the following. Build the servers in another location with X.400 connectors as the same as your main routing site, but make the cost of the connectors higher say 100. If the main site goes down the backup routing site should take over automatically.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrey Fyodorov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:44 PM Subject: RE: Stand-by servers > Wow 150 sites... I remember when Merrill Lynch reached 212 sites and > Directory Replication stopped working. Turned out that 212 was a design > limit. Of course Microsoft fixed it since. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 9:45 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Stand-by servers > > > We have a hub and spoke network of 150 Exchange 5.5 Sites. The centre Site > of the hub is just a routing Site with 2 servers (no user mailboxes). All > spoke Sites are connected to the hub Site with X.400 connectors (to one or > other of the servers). > > We now need a Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery environment for the > Hub. We want to build 2 spare servers in another location, and have these > servers take over the role of the routing hub in as short a time as > possible. Our plan is to build these spare servers as copies of the live > servers (same NT name, same IP address, same Exchange configuration). They > will be kept off the network until the central hub is no more, and then the > network will be switched, and these servers will become live. > > How should we build the server?? > One idea is: Build a BDC in the normal domain. Then disconnect the BDC from > the network, and promote it to a PDC. Then the new (member server) Exchange > server can be built off the network and connected into the stand-alone > domain using the new PDC. The Exchange server and configuration can then be > restored, probably on a monthly basis to maintain it in (approximate) step > with the live environment. > > > Anyone know whether these ideas will work? Anyone got other ideas that we > should explore? > At the present time we are less worried about the spoke Sites, which is > where the users reside. > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
