I thought his name was Michael... On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 18:26, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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