Exchange 2003 Disaster Recovery

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Is there no way to get an Information Store up and running on a new
piece of hardware / in a new geographic location without doing a
/disasteryrecovery installation of Exchange?

The Recovery Storage Group is handly for recovering pieces of mail /
mailboxes by extracting to a PST, but will only merge that mail back
into the original mailbox on the original server, which in the case of
a disaster does no good as it doesn't exist. It would be incredibly
handy to be able to move the RSG into a production Information Store
somehow, but that does not seem to be supported.

Short of buying a replication product like DoubleTake, what do people
have in their recovery plan for a speedy recovery from a machine /
site failure?

I feel I must be missing something basic here, or is it acceptable to
have to build a new Exchange server using /disasterrecovery before you
can get your users up and running again?
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Exchange 2003 Disaster Recovery
    ... The Recovery Storage Group is handly for recovering pieces of mail / ... handy to be able to move the RSG into a production Information Store ... have to build a new Exchange server using /disasterrecovery before you ...
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  • RE: Restore a single mailbox
    ... the "Information Store" and as such, you will need to use RSG to recover. ... backup -- you cannot restore just a single mailbox. ... there is a full information store backup ... and I know I can use a recovery storage group or a recovery ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange.admin)
  • Re: Exchange 5.5 Disaster recovery
    ... you read the *old* 5.5 disaster recovery whitepapers yet? ... >I am looking to do a recovery of an exchange 5.5 server to a server in a ... > differnet domain. ... i only have offlien backups of the information store, ...
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  • Re: Need to see the size of all recoverable items in info store
    ... Somehow he pulled up the size of all the data in the deleted item recovery ... area in the information store. ... PerfMon? ... That's one of the counter objects (MSExchangeIS Mailbox \ ...
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