Roger. Thanks. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> Yes. And because Exchange no longer requires NetBIOS, you also have a > dependency on the forest name - if you want to set up the same server > environment. > > Simple recovery just requires matching the orgName. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 8:58 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Issues snapshotting virtual Exchange servers in DAG? > > 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-e > > xchange-2010-dag-failover-sensitivity-by-increasing-cluster-timeout-va > > lues/ > > > > > > > > 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 > > > --- > 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
