Re: STM file not being created properly during restore
- From: Pearl <Pearl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:03:00 -0800
my situation must be unique. I seem to get questions about this arrangement
everytime I make a post. Here is what we are doing:
We have a need to conduct mailbox discoveries for legal and public
information purposes.
We've setup a separate restore forest to conduct tape restores into this
forest where there exists 2-3 restore Exchange Servers that are configured
exactly like our production servers.
We conduct tape restores into the identical mailbox stores that we retrieve
them from and then using Restore Alias accts, copy the information as PST to
those accts.
We then conduct a series of Exmerges to eventually remove any redundant
emails discovered over several weeks and finally create a single PST that we
can burn to DVD/CD to present to the legal department.
The problem is that we lease our servers and when they are returned we have
to install and reconfigure the new servers to match what we have (o/s,
patches, et al) to the Restore Forest. We also only have a one way trust
between the Exchange REstore forest and the Production forest.
This problem recently occurred when our production servers were all upgraded
to Exchange 2003. The base O/s remained Win2000Adv Server. So, we upgraded
our Exchange 2000 servers to Exchange 2003. Several things happened and this
is one of them. The first is that our domain admin accts could no longer be
used to conduct discoveries in the Exchange Restore Forest....could not even
open the Exchange System Manager console yet our existing Restore alias accts
that have Schema Mstr, Enterprise Admin, etc roles worked fine. So,it
appears we may have lost some security permissions across the forests. Then,
this happened. When we created the mirror setup of mailbox stores, the STM
file lost its suffix. We see the actual store name but no suffix. For
example, the EDB file is fine as it reads....ExSV101-1-1.edb but the STM was
ExSV101-1-1 (no stm suffix). Thus, any transaction logs that were restored
from tape could not be committed properly.
This is the issue I am trying to resolve. Can anyone help?
Thanks very much
Pearl
"Andy David {MVP}" wrote:
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:54:00 -0800, Pearl.
<Pearl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have an Exchange 2003 server (on Windows 2000 Adv Server). This server
exists in a separate Exchange Forest to allow us to restore mailboxes to.
This server is configured "exactly" like our Production Exchange Servers to
include the labels for the mailbox stores. However, after restoring from
tape the mailbox database, I notice that while EDB file is created properly
(i.e mailbox store (xxxx).edb but the STM file is NOT (mailbox store (xxxx)
)....no STM suffix. As a result, I can not get a successful committing of
the logs to continue my mailbox discovery process. Has anyone seen this
before and if so what causes this and how did you resolve it? Thanks very
much
What exactly are you backing up?
Also, you can use the recovery storage group in Exch 2003 to restore
mailbox contents.
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