Hi James What u could also do is the OST recovery trick!
If the users are running in cached mode and the server crashes then client will be unable to connect. However the OST will be in place. You could then export the OST to a PST which will give you a point in time snapshot which you can then restore into the database. Just make sure you don't connect to the client to the restored database before doing the client. Regards [cid:[email protected]] Peter Johnson I.T Architect United Kingdom: +44 1285 658542 South Africa: +27 11 252 1100 Swaziland: +268 442 7000 Fax:+27 11 974 7130 Mobile: +2783 306 0019 [email protected] www.peterstow.com<http://www.peterstow.com> This email message (including attachments) contains information which may be confidential and/or legally privileged. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message or from any attachments that were sent with this email, and If you have received this email message in error, please advise the sender by email, and delete the message. Unauthorised disclosure and/or use of information contained in this email may result in civil and criminal liability. Everything in this e-mail and attachments relating to the official business of Peterstow Aquapower is proprietary to the company. Caution should be observed in placing any reliance upon any information contained in this e-mail, which is not intended to be a representation or inducement to make any decision in relation to Peterstow Aquapower. Any decision taken based on the information provided in this e-mail, should only be made after consultation with appropriate legal, regulatory, tax, technical, business, investment, financial, and accounting advisors. Neither the sender of the e-mail, nor Peterstow Aquapower shall be liable to any party for any direct, indirect or consequential damages, including, without limitation, loss of profit, interruption of business or loss of information, data or software or otherwise. The e-mail address of the sender may not be used, copied, sold, disclosed or incorporated into any database or mailing list for spamming and/or other marketing purposes without the prior consent of Peterstow Aquapower. No warranties are created or implied that an employee of Peterstow Aquapower and/or a contractor of Peterstow Aquapower is authorized to create and send this e-mail. [cid:[email protected]] From: James Bensley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 09 February 2011 14:49 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disaster Recovery So I'm looking for peoples thoughts on DR given our current situation; We are a small-to-medium sized non-profit with £0.00 budget (classic!). Our single Exchange 2007 SP3 (Win2k3 r2) server performs nightly system state backups and at the weekend a IS backup, both of these done via NTBackup. So, if we have a hardware failure we can set up a replacement server, reset and bind to the old AD computer account, use the setup recovery mode switch and then run an NT restore of the IS backup to get the DB back up, is this correct? Will anything be missing from this, using the recovery mode switch in the past some settings were missing (CAS I think?), could these be recovered by also restoring the system state backups? Also, because we backup the IS with NT backup, how can I mount our main DB as a recovery storage group if I wanted to restore a mailbox (becaude the main mailbox DB is inside the First Storage Group inside the NT backup file)? In the mean time we export all mailboxes to PSTs as a scheduled task and have in the past restored from the containing folder and gotten everyones mail back but I like dual backups so I want to know how I can make the most of the NT IS backups. Thanks for reading guys n gals :) -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...? --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
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