Is it safe to asusme that if you don't have a DAG but just have two seperate servers hosting all roles (excluding UM), you can then reinstall the OS, resotre system state and run /recoverserver?
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > --- > 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
