Re: renaming Exchange 2003 mailbox stores

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As far as restoring, during the restore process, your Exchange aware
backup utility will use the restore.env file which holds info about
your DB such as identifiers such as the GUID as you suggested, database
name and folder path to restore. Google restore.env will give you some
info as to what it contains.

James chong
MCSE + Messaging, MCTP
msexchangetips.blogspot.com


ray.diack@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
If you're scripting this, it wouldn't take a whole lot of work to put
a pseudo-random number genration routine in there and pick the
database on the integer part of the product of multiplying the
pseudo-random number by the number of databases. That'd distribute the
mailboxes over the databases a lot more evenly than using the given
names of individuals. And . . . the scheme is extensible, unlike your
current method.

Thanks Rich that's an option... but i wouldn't know how to create a
pseudo-random number generation routine :) The current script is in
Perl... any idea how i'd do this?

2. No it won't invalidate previous backups.

Great, thanks James. How would we restore a backup of the store before
we renamed it? Does the GUID of the store or whatever property the
backup APi's use remain the same despite renaming it, and is that why
it won't invalidate the backups?

3. Yes that's fine. You can still disperse your mailbox stores across
multiple storage groups irregardless of "if they're wrriten to the same
disk in two different location." This can give you better manageability
ie. SLA's, or providing indexing for certain stores. But again you can
put them in one storage group.

You don't think it would strain the disk writing sequentially to two
different locations on the same disk? If not then I'll definitely go
with the "best practice" - makes sense as you say with SLA's,
recoverability etc.

Thanks again for your help guys!

.

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