Re: Transferring email from one SBS to another

Thanks,
I'll post back to let you know!
MMJII

"Grey Lancaster SBS Rocks MVP]" <grey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Look in your mdbdata folder. If you are not doing an exchange aware type
backup you will have tons of log files.

So Start>run>NTBACKUP clcik okay run whatever

Then backup the microsoft exchange to disc or tape somewhere to flush
those
log files.

When you move the mdbdata folder to the new box you have to set the
private
and public store ticks that database may be overwritten with a restore

I am hoping all goes well also :)

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"MMJII" <MMJII@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the info, When you say "online backup" I use tapeware, and
exchange is shutdown during backup, the entire directory is backed up to
tape will this suffice?
i only have 5 users, and I set up enverything exactly as the original
server, so i am hoping it all goes well.
Thanks again for the info.

MMJII

"Grey Lancaster SBS Rocks MVP]" <grey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Do an online backup of exchange to somewhere tape or disc to flush the
logs.
Dis mount the stores and copy the mdbdata folder from the old box to
the
new
box. Must have the same names everywhere and data locations must be
the
same

But I have a feeling all this is not going to match and you are looking
at
exmerge



http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=429163EC-DCDF-47DC-96DA-1C12D67327D5&displaylang=en



<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>
Last but not least, we had the Exchange Fork-Lift and data migration.
In
order to leave the previous SBS server exactly intact, we decided to
move
the data through other means than the network, that being a USB disk.
We
copied the MDBDATA folder from the old server to the USB disk in 10
minutes,
then there must have been only USB 1.0 on the new server (odd yes) but
it
took upwards of an hour!!! Once that was done, we copied the files over
and
the mount failed!!!.

Luckily, reading Jeff's documentation we realized that we needed to
have
the
databases and log files in exactly the same position as they were on
the
old
production server. Fixing this the store mounted immediately.


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"MMJII" <MMJII@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for all replys.
I can use the fork lift can you point me to a KB article
Thanks again
MMJII
"Mariette Knap [SBS MVP]" <mariette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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MMJII <MMJII@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello All,
I have a 2K3 SBS 10 users, I have built a new SBS server better /
faster hardware, i want to dump the email from the old SBS to the
new
SBS. Is there any info how to do this?

If you use the same netbios and domain name you can forklift the
Exchange
Stores to your new server.

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