Re: HELP! Restoring SBS without a System State backup

Hello Mark,

Thank you for posting here.

From your post, I understand that the server crashed. You only backed up
the file system, but not the system state. Now you reinstalled SBS and
would like to restore the data.

Firstly I would like to explain that we cannot restore the server from the
file system backup. Even we have the file system backup, we cannot get back
the AD information back.

However, we can reinstall the SBS server, install the service packs to let
the service pack level be same with the original server. Then manually
recreate the user accounts and user groups.

After that, we can restore the documents and data file (such as Exchange
database and SharePoint database).

How to use Recovery Storage Groups in Exchange Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824126/

How to back up and restore http://companyweb data in Windows Small Business
Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=829112

More information for your reference:

Exchange Server 2003 Disaster Recovery Operations Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A58F49C5-1190-4FBF-
AEDE-007A8F366B0E&displaylang=en

313184 How to recover the information store on Exchange 2000 Server or
Exchange 2003 Server
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=313184

823176 How to recover or to restore a single mailbox in Exchange Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=823176

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| Anyone?
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| I'm thinking that I could run:
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| setup /forestprep
| setup /domainprep (these two would get back the AD schema
| setup /disasterrecovery (to get the registry entries back)
|
| Could I then move the resulting logs and DBs (from mdbdata, right?) to
| another location and copy back in my good logs and DB's from the previous
| installation, then mount the stores?
|
| Would this work?
|
| Mark
|
| "Mark" wrote:
|
| > OK, here's where I am:
| >
| > I reinstalled SBS 2003 onto C:, but without Exchange. I remounted the
RAID5
| > array (H:), and all the data is intact. That includes the Exchange
bits, logs
| > and databases, as they were originally installed in H:\Program
| > Files\exchsrvr. I've also recreated all the users that had mailboxes on
the
| > system. Of course, the domain name and server name are the same as
before,
| > though the SIDS are different.
| >
| > So, what next? I need to run the Exchange setup program to get the AD
and
| > registry settings back, and to set whatever file system permissions are
| > appropriate in the \exchsrvr heirarchy. How do I do this? I've got some
| > ideas, but don't really know what I'm doing... Perhaps you noticed...
:-)
| >
| > Mark
| >
|
|

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