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sbradcpa
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 | | 05/08/2008 10:03 AM |
| ..and they are paying the price now aren't they?
Ramon Linan wrote:
> I was meaning
> I do have backups, I do have the skills, I do have a really cheap and
> sucky management, who think, if it is working why do we need to spend
> money on it?
>
> Rezuma
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
> [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Ramon Linan
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:50 AM
> To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: help restoring MS EXCHANGE 2003
>
> It has been a nightmare, since you mention it I will tell you the full
> story.
>
> For a year and a half I was telling my managers that it is not a good
> idea to have an AC unit on top of the main racks, for a year and a half
> I only got "no" to install a new AC, for the last 5 weekends I have been
> working in the server because the AC kept breaking.
>
> At some point the AC people replace the pump in the AC, they did not do
> it right what caused the AC to put lot of water onto the whole rack,
> this happened on a weekend, all the servers, SAN backups and Tape device
> went dead leaving me with just one tape.
> I was working from Sunday 6 am (when I detected the problem) to Monday
> 4pm, on Monday 8 pm my wife goes into labor...anyway, it only get worst
> from there...
>
> I do have backups, I don't have the skill, I do have a really cheap and
> sucky management.
>
> Rezuma
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
> [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:39 AM
> To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
> Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: help restoring MS EXCHANGE 2003
>
> Do plan for a better backup for next time.
> It doesn't sound like you had one?
>
>
>
> Michael B. Smith wrote:
>
>> This is because Exmerge "breaks" SIS - Single Instance Storage. I
>> can't tell you how important SIS is in your environment without
>> knowing a lot more about your environment. In most environments, it's
>> relatively UNimportant. Microsoft has recommended since at least the
>> release of Exchange 2003 that SIS NOT be taken into account when
>> planning disk utilization for Exchange.
>>
>> I've marked this OT since we are drifting far afield from Active
>> Directory.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael B. Smith
>>
>> MCSE/Exchange MVP
>>
>> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
>>
>> *From:* ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
>> [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] *On Behalf Of *Ramon Linan
>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:29 AM
>> *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
>> *Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] help restoring MS EXCHANGE 2003
>>
>> I hear that ex-merge will increase the size of the database
>> considerably, because any email sent to a group will get copy to all
>> the mailboxes instead of being a pointer.
>>
>> Rezuma
>>
>> *From:* ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
>> [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael B.
>> Smith
>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:22 AM
>> *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
>> *Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] help restoring MS EXCHANGE 2003
>>
>> That's basically what the "mailbox merge" process is, depending on
>> your version of Exchange.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael B. Smith
>>
>> MCSE/Exchange MVP
>>
>> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
>>
>> *From:* ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
>> [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] *On Behalf Of *Bart Van
>> den Wyngaert
>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:40 AM
>> *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [ActiveDir] help restoring MS EXCHANGE 2003
>>
>> Wouldn't exmerge be of any help by exporting/importing the mailboxes?
>>
>> - Bart
>>
>> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Michael B. Smith
>> <michael@theessentialexchange.com
>> <mailto:michael@theessentialexchange.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Well, there are two ways to do this, based on your backup situation.
>>
>> Right-now, if you built your recovery server properly (which it sounds
>>
>
>
>> like you probably did, since your users are receiving new email), you
>> have what is called a "dial tone" server. What you need to do is a
>> dial tone recovery.
>>
>> Dial tone recovery, in all its glory, is covered in this white paper:
>>
>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998947.aspx
>>
>> Basically, you've already "reset the message store". What you'll do
>> next is "restore" the old database files to the new server, reset them
>>
>
>
>> to deal with database portability, mount them in a RSG, and then use
>> the mailbox merge process to move the users data into their live
>> mailboxes.
>>
>> Read the white paper. It's pretty good.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael B. Smith
>>
>> MCSE/Exchange MVP
>>
>> http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/>
>>
>> *From:* ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
>> <mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org>
>> [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
>> <mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org>] *On Behalf Of *Ramon
>>
> Linan
>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:39 PM
>> *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
>>
> <mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
>
>> *Subject:* [ActiveDir] help restoring MS EXCHANGE 2003
>>
>> HI,
>>
>> Our Exchange server 2003 got destroy by the water, so I build a
>> new exchange server with the same name and put it back in the
>> network, so the users are getting emails again but they can see
>> their old email. Later, I was able to revive the destroyed email
>> server by changing the motherboard in that server.
>>
>> My question is, how can I move the emails from the old
>> emailserver1 to the new emailserver1? I have full access to both,
>> should I use recovery store? I cant put the old one in the network
>> since it was also a DC (I manually remove that from AD).
>>
>> Not worry about public folders.
>>
>> What files do I need to copy? The priv take almost 150 gigs.
>>
>> Rezuma
>>
>>
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