Re: Restoring disk image of Windows when exchange databases are on different disk
- From: "Prem" <premmetje@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 24 Jun 2006 11:09:45 -0700
Thank you for your reply.
No i did not make a (recent) system state backup, since my scenario is
for disaster recovery, which is unexpected most of the time. As I
understand, the system state backup includes the following:
- Boot files (Boot.ini, NDTLDR, NTDetect.com)
- Registry - Including COM settings
- SYSVOL - Group Policy and Logon Scripts
- Active Directory NTDS.DIT (Domain Controllers)
- Certificate Store (If the service is installed)
Which of these is of importance for getting exchange to work after
restoring the operating system disk?
For the operating system image I use Acronis True Image Server.
Normally, I dont have any problems. I restore the Acronis image and all
works fine. But after moving the exchange databases to another disk
(reasons: space and security), apparently addistional actions have to
be undertaken.
The following exchange data are stored on a seperate disk (d:)
E00.log
E00tmp.log
priv1.edb
priv1.stm
pub1.edb
pub1.stm
res1.log
res2.log
As I understand, the Disaster recovery link that you gave, refers to
restoring exchange backups, which is not the case in my situation, in
which I prefer not to touch the information stores that are present.
Prem
Rich Matheisen [MVP] schreef:
"Prem" <premmetje@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok, I need some help with this scenario:
I frequently need to restore the complete disk image of my operating
system (Windows 2003) which is the c: disk.
In order to prevent having to perform a full restore of Exchange
databases, I have moved these databases to another disk d:, by changing
the path the official way in exchange system manager. After the
transfer, all worked o.k.
In this way, I hope to make it more easy to restore the operating
system disk image without having to also restore the exchange
databases.
However, I tried restoring the OS image once, and after that couldnt
mount the mailbox stores because they appeared to be inconsistent.
Can someone please advice me on what I should do, to make a restore of
the operating system disk possible (thus the exchange program also
which resides in c:) without having to touch the databases?
Did you make a system state backup of the server? And did you restore
the system state backup after you restored the "normal" backup?
Where are the Exchange transaction log files stored? Were the Exchange
services all stopped when you made the backup of the C: drive?
If you're restoring the C: disk that often, wither you have hardware
problems (which should be fixed), or this is some sort of development
machine. Either way, it's not an appropriate place to be running an
Exchange server.
You can read about "disaster recovery" by starting at
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange
--
Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
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