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sbradcpa
Posts:174
 | | 05/08/2008 8:43 AM |
| 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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