Re: Exchange Recovery Question

in that case, i don't know if you're going to be able to get the transaction
logs to replay against this restore...have you contacted Symantec on this?
I'm not familiar with the process. I don't know that I would have given up
traditional "online" backups in favor of this approach until I'd tested and
been assured that I would still be able to recover up to the minute of
failure, utilizing transaction log files...

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Susan Conkey [MVP]



<timbrigham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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LiveState does the database backups without taking the database
offline, but I don't know if it does everything that NTBackup does.
For one, I know that it does not purge any outdated log files.
I performed an offline backup of the damaged database and associated
log files prior to starting my restore. Getting access to that data is
what I really need to do.

I have tested doing restores from this backup and had everything work.
I just didn't try creating a recovery point using a moved copy of the
main exchange database.


Susan wrote:
so this is not actually an "online" backup? is that what you mean?
had
you ever tested recovery from this type of backup?

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Susan Conkey [MVP]



<timbrigham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I use Symantec's LiveState to do most of my system backups at work.
Early Monday morning (around 1 - 2 AM )a power failure took down our
exchange server. Testing the database showed some corruption, as well
as a couple damaged / missing log files from around that time. I did a
restore of the E: drive (mail store) that had completed around
midnight. We're back up and working; however I have lost almost a
full day (Monday) of email.
Before restoring the E: drive, I xcopied all the files that had
originally been on the E: drive to a temp directory on C:.
I'm unsure now how to integrate any of the data from the original
damaged database into the restore. I've read the Microsoft Using
Recovery Storage Group documentation, but because I used a LiveState,
which does backups by the volume shadow copy API, it looks like I
don't have any way to pull any data from the original database.
Is there a way available to do to?




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