Re: Diaster Recovery 101 (MSEX5.5)

I never installed a recovery server with the /r option...I would just do a
straight install...creating new site...make sure the OS is at the same SP
level that the production server was...did you get an event in the app log
telling you to run isinteg -patch? are you restoring from an offline
backup?

"Carl Hilton" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:#XixxXwgFHA.2700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I have tried that... SETUP /R and UPDATE /R then moved my old MDBDATA
> directory over the new one (left all other data directories with default
> files from the install)... Started the SA and IS services then tried to
run
> ISINTEG -patch (errors) and could not start the Exchange Admin Console to
> try to do a DS/IS... said it could not find an Exchange server... even
> though it was located on the same machine.
>
>
>
> "Susan" <sconkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eTsbs9vgFHA.2880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > you don't need to restore or use the old DS to recovery mailbox
> > data...build
> > your recovery server with the same exact ORG and SITE names, using any
> > account as the site services account...then restore only the IS...run
the
> > DS/IS consistency check, and then you should be able to recover mailbox
> > data
> > using exmerge...
> >
> > "Carl Hilton" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:#FXZ1lvgFHA.1052@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> OK, I had an old MSEX5.5(SP4) server that HAD been part of an NT4
domain
> > but
> >> running W2Kserver. Now this was turned off at the beginning of they
year
> >> waiting for directions about what to do with it following migration to
> >> EX2003 in an AD environment.... Now, I need to reclaim some mailboxes
> >> from
> >> it (and associated backups that I have dug out of the dungeon),
However..
> >>
> >> 1) The NT4 domain does NOT exist so the Service account and associated
> >> SID
> >> do NOT exist...
> >>
> >> 2) I made this 2K server an AD domain unto itself with the same name as
> > the
> >> NT4 domain.
> >>
> >> 3) I tried uninstalling Exchange 5.5 and reloading with the /R option
but
> >> still can not get the IS to start. I figure once I get this going then
I
> > can
> >> restore my brick level backups for the required mailboxes...
> >>
> >> 4) YES, I have read the Ex5.5 Diaster recovery document and have tried
to
> >> follow it as closely as possible, obviously having to make some
different
> >> decisions...
> >>
> >> 5) If I try to use the OLD DS I get the 4012 errors about access... If
I
> > use
> >> a blank DS, I get 4015 errors..... Does someone have an EASY to use
> > "go-by"
> >> for getting this baby up and running?
> >>
> >> Or is it better to use a 3rd party tool like ontrack or quest to just
> >> grab
> >> what I need from a non running priv.edb?
> >>
> >> Carl
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>


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