Need help urgently please!

Hello,

Today the C: drive of the sole server in our remote office crashed and we
may not be able to get it back. We have daily backup that was most recent
last night about 5AM. The server they had in that office is a DC with RAS,
DNS and Exchange. There are about 10 exchange mailboxes on that server. The
databases are on a RAID array that should be fine, but the log files were
also on the C: Drive that crashed. Our MX records are set up to list their
server as primary for their domain (they have their own .com addresses) and
our as secondary mail server. So emails since the crash are piling up in our
local server in the queue. The users down there are frantic to be able to
read the emails that they missed all day, but are in our server. I created a
temporary mailbox and have set forwarding from their mailboxes to the temp
"catch all" mailbox. This works for new mail coming in now, but there are
still hundreds of messages in the queue from before I set up the forwarding.
I looked in the vs 1 queue folder for them to drag into the pickup folder,
but there are no messages in the queue even though there shows hundreds of
messages in the queue on ESM. How can I get these queued messages into the
temp folder quickly so that these users can view via OWA?

Also, can someone suggest the best recovery procedure for rebuilding the
remote server assuming that the server won't recognize the C drive.We're
getting a new drive first thing in the AM and want to know what the best
method assuming the log files are on the bad drive. I'll try to mount it as
a slave drive after rebuilding the server and restoring that way from the
backup. If my databases are good, can I just point to my RAID array as the
location of my databases and try to move the log files to to over-write the
default log files when exchange is freshly installed?

Thanks for any help

John


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