Re: Burn to Death

Indeed. You would be hard pressed to find an MVP who hasn't talked to PSS at
least once in the last year. If for no other reason than to reinforce that
your plan will work.

"Andy David - MVP" <adavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:35:26 +0100, "John Finger" <JohnFinger> wrote:

PS: I also posted on Exchange ngs, about this but until know I only got
the
answer to call to MS PSS, actually when this happened I said to my boss
that
we needed to call to PSS, but the his answer wasn't friendly, basically he
said that the company have IT Dep to solve problems similar to this one,
and
if the IT reveals unable to solve this kind of situation that means that
maybe some IT guys aren't need and we'll have additional budged to spend
on
PSS calls, support etc. My Boss is a nice guy, and I know that he only
said
that because the current unusual situation and pressure that he has on his
shoulders, but anyway, I'm confidant that with my IT Partners suggestions
and your Experts experience probably dealing with this kind of situation
every day, We're going to succeed at the end.

I also know that it's my fault not to cover this type of situation in
recovery testing scenarios.

Tell your boss that there is no loss of grace to call PSS. If
anything, not calling them is foolish. A lot of large orgs, with large
IT staffs, have support contracts with Microsoft and call them when
required. This certainly seems like one of those times.






Thanks again.

"Susan" <sconkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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indeed...they will do all they can to assist you...it will be worth
it...

--
Susan Conkey [MVP]



"Ben Winzenz [Exchange MVP]" <ben_winzenz@nospamdotmessageonedotcom>
wrote
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Call PSS - right now. This is not the type of situation that you want
to
trade newsgroup posts back and forth on.

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"John Finger" <JohnFinger> wrote in message
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Burn to Death - Please Help on Recovery.

Hi Everyone

I just want to start by saying that this is an urgent issue and any
help
would be very, very appreciated.

-Scenario:

5 Different Forests each one with one Domain, forest trust between
each
forest exist, about 1000 users and computer objects between each one
of
them.

-My responsibility is 2 Forests in my local site connected by fiber
optic.

-Problem:

Last night, some angry people place one of our local offices on fire,
as
result one of the walls of the IT Dep. (Where the servers were),
crashed
down and took my 2 servers (Forest1 / 1 Domain), now I have about 700
users
stopped without producing almost nothing. Our Backup safe was
"apparently"
ok, but we're starting to try to review all the information on each
tape,
and its reveling useful because the heat of the fire destroyed all
information on those tapes. When things couldn't get worse, we
discovered
that our off site tapes are missing!!! No one knows any thing about
the
tapes, this starts to seem a planned situation, but it doesn't matter,
the
police are already on the top of it.

PS: One of the Tapes seems Ok, but we only know that after we try to
use
it
to recover the death DCs the tape is 1 week old.

-My Gold:

Recover the DCs and I have a Window until next Sunday to have
everything
working.

We're 5 It Guys to make this happen; I and other guy have the
responsibility
to coordinate everyone. We want to start by try to recover the DC that
had
the Exchange and DFS on it and them we start to deal with SQL.

DC1 - Domain Controller and Exchange Server - and DFS.

DC2 - Domain controller and SQL Server - and DFS.

- As you see we need good documentation about restoring a death DC
with
exchange and DFS on it. The Tape has System State backed up, but we
are
reluctant to exchange recovery with this tape we are not very certain
how to
do it in the correct way, we need to avoid repetitions and waste time
on
it.

We try to find information about exchange recovery on a DC but we
didn't
found anything specific or interesting.

-Again .

Any help on the right track on this subject is very, very, very, very
appreciated.

Thank you very much for your time.

And I know. next time we need to test this specific recovery scenario,
as
considering the exchange to be placed on a dedicated Server, but for
know
this is all what our budget allows to do.

Thanks again.









.

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  • Re: Burn to Death
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  • Re: Burn to Death
    ... recovery testing scenarios. ... to recover the death DCs the tape is 1 week old. ... DC1 - Domain Controller and Exchange Server - and DFS. ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange.admin)
  • Re: Burn to Death
    ... we needed to call to PSS, but the his answer wasn't friendly, basically he ... recovery testing scenarios. ... to recover the death DCs the tape is 1 week old. ... DC1 - Domain Controller and Exchange Server - and DFS. ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange.admin)
  • Re: Burn to Death
    ... I also posted on Exchange ngs, about this but until know I only got the ... we needed to call to PSS, but the his answer wasn't friendly, basically he ... recovery testing scenarios. ... to recover the death DCs the tape is 1 week old. ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange.admin)
  • Re: Exchange Service has Stopped!
    ... for many organisations it is the major component of SBS. ... Exchange out of the mix. ... >> Did you call PSS and have them walk you through any number of tools to ... >>>>recovery using Ontrack's Exchange recovery tools. ...
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