Exchange Server Restore From Backup - Help Needed

Hi,
I posted twice on this subject and both posts never appeared maybe I
inadvertently used a word that blocked the post??

The question:

I have a good backup tape on a Travan tape from a server that was destroyed.
I am now recovering the data from Exchange. My problem is that the new
server is totally SCSI and I cannot fit a Travan tape drive to it (it has a
DAT 72 fitted) so I can't restore the Exchange Server data directly on the
machine. After pouring over a number of MS Documents I can see there are a
number of methods that would allow me to restore this data if I was
restoring the tape on the new machine.

I discovered from the documentation that I can redirect a restore from one
machine to another. My SBS box is in the Sivill.local domain and the
client's new Server is in a domain called completeweedcontrol.local (The
non-fqdn name is CWCLTD, hereafter referred to as CWC).

I have fitted a Travan tape drive to my SBS box as it does have an IDE
connector and then changed the IP address of my box so that it is in the
same subnet as the CWC box using the wizard in "Connect to the Internet". I
wondered if that would cause problems as they are both DHCP servers but I
didn't see anything pop up (the logs may tell a different story when I get
to them??) There were no clients in the network whilst I was attempting
this.

I started the NTBackup utility in non-wizard mode and went to the Restore
tab. I located the "First Storage Group" backup item and clicked "Restore",
I was then offered the option to re-direct the restore to another database
server. The computer I was on is called "SIVILL\SERVER01" and the new one
is "CWCLTD\SERVER02". I had tested they could see each other through
Explorer and I had set the Administrator user names & passwords to the same
values on both machines.

I clicked the "Browse..." button to see if my server could see the other
one, at first they couldn't but after a while of retrying eventually I could
see the two domains and the SERVER02 computer listed in the CWCLTD domain.
When I tried to select it, there was a small plus symbol as if there might
be a sub entry, but it wouldn't expand out and when I clicked on the server
name "SERVER02" the "OK" button remained greyed out?

In the end I cancelled this dialog and entered "SERVER02" manually. I set
the temp location for log and patch files to "C:\Temp\Exchange".

I ticked the "Last Restore Set" and "Mount Database After Restore" check
boxes and then clicked OK.

The first and immediate dialog came up saying that the log file path could
not be created, yet when I checked on SERVER02 it had in fact created the
folders. When I OK'd that warning another came up saying:

"The specified computer is not a Microsoft Exchange server or its Microsoft
Exchange services are not started."

I checked and all the usual services were up and running on SERVER02?

Can anyone help me with this as it is getting frustrating. I am back in at
the client's tomorrow and really would like to get their email back as well
as their contact information as they have been through a fairly major
disaster recovery and pretty much everything else has gone well!

Siv


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