RE: How to restore edb & stm files from bkf backup file on another exc



Hi
you can't do want you want to do.

Have a look into the following documents
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555603/en-us
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125070.aspx

the following statement is from the second one:
Mailbox databases are portable between servers that are running the same
version of Exchange and that are in the same administrative group. A mailbox
database created on one server in an administrative group can be renamed or
copied to a different storage group on the same server or to a different
server in the same administrative group. After this renaming or copying has
been done, the links between user accounts and mailboxes must be reconfigured.

Henry



"Leemutpo" wrote:

Hi there, want to do some testing on using ntbackup to backup/restore
exch2003 information store.

On production server (exch2003sp1, w2k3sp1) successfully backup information
store to a bkf file. I copied the bkf file to a test server (exch2003sp2,
w2k3sp1) with a different domain name/server name/exch org. I used wizard
mode to restore, after select the information store, i tried both
"alternation location" or "single folder" but still failed with following
message:

Restore Status
Operation: Restore
Backup of "PRODUCTION\Microsoft Information Store\First Storage Group",
Restored to "TEST\Microsoft Information Store\First Storage Group"
Backup set #1 on media #1
Backup description: "Set created 29/3/2007 at 11:06 AM"

Restore started on 22/3/2007 at 4:18 PM.
Unable to restore Exchange data to TEST\Microsoft Information Store\First
Storage Group,
check the application event log for more information
Restore completed on 22/3/2007 at 4:18 PM.
Directories: 0
Files: 0
Bytes: 0
Time: 1 second
----------------------

On the TEST server got related event log as follows:

event id: 8018, source: ntbackup, type: information
description: begin operation

event id:8002, source: ntbackup, type: information
description: begin restore to 'TEST\Microsoft Information Store\First
Storage Group' Verify: Off

event id 9635, source: MSexchangeIS, type: error
description: Failed to find a database to restore to from the Microsoft
Active Directory. Storage Group specified on the backup media is
9afb4b77-c7ce-414f-9ac2-741a50c61be4.
Database specified on backup media is Site-1 Store, error is 0xc7fe1f42.

event id: 904, source: ESE BACKUP, type: error
description: Information Store (4864) Callback function call
ErrESECBRestoreGetDestination ended with error 0xC7FE1F42 Database not
found.

event ID: 8003, source: ntbackup, type: error
description: End Restore to 'TEST\Microsoft Information Store\First Storage
Group' 'Failed'
Verify: Off
Consult the backup report for more detail.

event ID: 8019, Source: NTBackup, Type: Error
description: End Operation: Warnings or errors were encountered. Consult the
backup report for more details.

At this moment I only want to successfully extract the edb & stm files from
the bkf file to c:\restore on TEST server. What should I do?

Many thanks!



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