I've not ever had to do a real clenched-up DR for my Exchange 5.5, but you should just be able to run the restore on a stand-alone machine and save the data to a pst or something. The tape drive will have to be directly connected to the 5.5 machine if you are using NT4 ntbackup. Win2000 may be able to see the tape drive from other servers. Not sure. I'd just steal the tape drive and put it on your DR server to do the restore. Apologize later, if necessary.
Jim Helfer -----Original Message----- From: Matt Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:48 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: 5.5 to 2000 Transition Gah! Sorry about hijacking that thread... OK, Migration to Exchange 2000 from 5.5 was a nightmare, but I managed to get MOST of my users to transfer over. Unfortunately, 15 of the 160 did not transfer inexplicably. They now have no mailboxes. Also, even more unfortunately, a couple of them are people who had huge mailboxes and lost a whole lot of data here. I still have my backups from 5.5, but the question is, how the hell do I get any of it back now? The tape drive that was used for those backups was on the same server that is now 2000, and is now in AD where it was in an NT 4 domain before. I tried installing 5.5 on another server and the 5.5 management tools on the upgraded box. Normally that means one can see the existing 5.5 servers and restore or backup data to them remotely. However, the 5.5 management tools cannot see the other server that 5.5 is now installed to. It's in the old domain, whereas the new box is in the new AD domain. Is this the problem? Should I install 5.5 somewhere in my AD domain and try restoring there? Is this a common problem with the 5.5 management tools that they can't go cross-domain to see 5.5 server? I guess any kind of help here would be great since my 15 "lost" users are having major panic attacks. Thanks, Matt _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
