Re: Burn to Death
- From: "Ben Winzenz [Exchange MVP]" <ben_winzenz@nospamdotmessageonedotcom>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:57:51 -0500
Call PSS - right now. This is not the type of situation that you want to
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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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