Re: Restoring and Image File
- From: "Richard Wagstaff" <rwagstaff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:18:45 +0100
Sorry Henry - Let me re-phrase....
Drive C has only the SBS system files.
Drive D has the Exchange database.
Exchange (and the rest of our data) is backed up every night and Drive C is
imaged every few weeks.
It looks as if I've messed up my Exchange settings so I was thinking of
restoring the image of C in order to revert back to Exchange's original
settings. I would then have to restore the current Exchange Data back to
bring it up to date (it's backed up using Backup Exec 11d). However, as
Drive D (containing the current Exchange data) is untouched and current, I
was wondering if, by deleted the log files in the MDBData directory before
restoring the system files, I could fire up the restored system and have
Exchange running happily.
My other alternatives seem to be:
1. Get onto Microsoft to figure out what on earths gone wrong with Exchange
and try to get it fixed.
2. Restore the Drive C image (System) and Drive D image (Exchange) and then
restore the latest Exchange back up to bring the Exchange up to date again.
3. Re-install SBS 2003 from scratch and exmerge that exchange data back in.
We are only a small operation with a few workstations and we don't have any
SBS experts on-site.
Richard
"Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}" <sme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The question doesn't make sense to me...
If you restore the 5 week old image, you Exchange Data will be 5 weeks old
no matter what you do to the log files.
Restore the image by all means if you do not have a full backup or more
recent system state. ( you'll then need to re-do any changes you made to
the AD etc... )
As you have a nightly backup of Exchange delete the 5 week old databases
and log files after the restore and replace or overwrite with the Exchange
DataStores from the previous night's backup.
--
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
"Richard Wagstaff" <rwagstaff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Not at all... we back up our data every night - However, restoring an
image of the system partition is, I'm guessing, very much faster than a
re-install and restoring the data from tape.
Would you happen to know if deleting the log files will work?
Richard
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