Exchange DR, what to do
- From: gwelsh123@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 2 Feb 2007 06:08:45 -0800
Hello
been asked to develop DR (DR as in an entire site being wiped out)
plans for our organisations Exchange environment. We have two-node
exchange clusters at siteA and at siteB. We have a separate DR site
with a newly installed DC, and a standby Exchange Server.
I originally had the idea of the following
1. in the event of a disaster, on the DR DC, seize all the FSMO roles
2. setup blank databases on the DR exchange server, use some script to
set the homemdb, homemta, msexchhomeserver attributes to point at the
DR server
3. users then (after rejigging their outlook profile) then open
outlook with a blank database
4. restore the databases into a recovery storage group on the DR
server, then merge the data into the new blank databases
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tried this in our lab environment, discovered that when tryin to merge
data out of the RSG, it tries to restore it to the original server,
and not to the new server, probably because at the time the databases
were backed up, thats where the mailboxes were
so, question is, whats the best way of DR'ng Exchange, using a standby
recovery server?
have read through the DR Ops Guide from Microsoft, understand the
concepts, and am comfortable with restoring databses etc, but im still
unsure on how to plan the Exchange DR at a higher level
.
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