This is going to have to be a DR exercise for me sometime soon... Say you loose everything, including AD, but have Exchange db backups made from Windows Server Backup. Does 2010 have 2003's reliance on a like-named Exchange Org. in order to restore a backed up Exchange db?
(I hope that made sense...) On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > As of 2007 Sp2, AD contains most attributes associated with exchange, > excepting those stored in the so-called “IIS metabase”. Those are included > in a system-state backup. > > > > So… you install an OS, restore the system state backup, and the only thing > else you have to do is reseed the DB copy. In 25 words or less. :-P > > > > From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 4:46 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Issues snapshotting virtual Exchange servers in DAG? > > > > I can’t get my head round the advantages of a system state backup vs. just > reinstalling the OS and then Exchange in recovery mode. Is it just a time > issue or is there genuinely some data that must be restored? Personally, > I’ve recovered mailbox servers by just reinstalling and configuring the OS > and then plonking Exchange on top. Seemed to work fine (Ex 2007 standalone). > > > > (Or were you simply talking about EDB backups with 2 or fewer database > copies?) > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Michael B. Smith > Sent: 22 March 2012 18:36 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Issues snapshotting virtual Exchange servers in DAG? > > > > Unless you’ve got 3 copies of your data, I’d recommend doing SOME backup. > > > > Servers that are members of a DAG are slightly more complicated than just > /recoverserver, but it isn’t a huge deal. Personally, I just do a > system-state backup from within the VM. It’s much smaller than snapping the > entire VM, no delays are involved, and the recovery process is pretty > trivial. > > > > From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:32 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Issues snapshotting virtual Exchange servers in DAG? > > > > Oddly I can't find an article on his blog using anything obvious (to me), > did find this though: > > > > http://internationalmanofawesome.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/decreasing-exchange-2010-dag-failover-sensitivity-by-increasing-cluster-timeout-values/ > > > > My next question was going to be whether it's worth doing VM level backups > to start with, particularly with a DAG? > > > > AIUI so long as you have a good copy of the databases it's a "simple" matter > of standing up a new server and re-installing Exchange with /recoverserver - > but I don't have the experience to know if this is likely to be more > pleasant than trying to use a snapshot as in our case our databases/logs are > on iSCSI volumes mounted within the guest, so snapshotting the VM would just > get us a bootable OS. > > --- > 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 > > --- > 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 --- 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
