Urgent exchange disaster recovery plan

[mike]

We recently had an issue where we had to rebuild exchange 5.5 and restore mailbox’s etc back into it. We suffered considerable downtime which has now possed the question of disaster recovery.

We have a domain with a pdc and bdc (NT4 server) and have created a bdc off site which is part of the domain and is synchronising remotely. I need to come up with a good disaster recover for the exchange server.

We are using veritas backup which is backing up private store, public store and one other folder. Could someone suggest the best way of handling this. The exchange server cannot be taken offline. I have looked at exmerge but am not sure if this would copy permissions etc if the edb’s are in use.

Is there a way of creating a second exchange 5.5 remotely and mirroring the accounts of the original exchange. (Exact copy – but the backup exchange server does not function unless the other one goes down.)

Please help – I am in grave danger.
Thanks
Mike

[James]

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mike at 5/9/2002 6:10:14 AM

We recently had an issue where we had to rebuild exchange 5.5 and restore mailbox’s etc back into it. We suffered considerable downtime which has now possed the question of disaster recovery.

We have a domain with a pdc and bdc (NT4 server) and have created a bdc off site which is part of the domain and is synchronising remotely. I need to come up with a good disaster recover for the exchange server.
Have you thought about setting up a cluster for the Exchange server?

What this will do is to mirror everything that is on your exchange server and if any thing happens to the first server the second server will still be online.

Check out Microsoft Clustering software.


We are using veritas backup which is backing up private store, public store and one other folder. Could someone suggest the best way of handling this. The exchange server cannot be taken offline. I have looked at exmerge but am not sure if this would copy permissions etc if the edb’s are in use.

Is there a way of creating a second exchange 5.5 remotely and mirroring the accounts of the original exchange. (Exact copy – but the backup exchange server does not function unless the other one goes down.)

Please help – I am in grave danger.
Thanks
Mike

[James]

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James at 5/9/2002 7:11:57 PM




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mike at 5/9/2002 6:10:14 AM

We recently had an issue where we had to rebuild exchange 5.5 and restore mailbox’s etc back into it. We suffered considerable downtime which has now possed the question of disaster recovery.

We have a domain with a pdc and bdc (NT4 server) and have created a bdc off site which is part of the domain and is synchronising remotely. I need to come up with a good disaster recover for the exchange server.
Have you thought about setting up a cluster for the Exchange server?

What this will do is to mirror everything that is on your exchange server and if any thing happens to the first server the second server will still be online.

Check out Microsoft Clustering software.


We are using veritas backup which is backing up private store, public store and one other folder. Could someone suggest the best way of handling this. The exchange server cannot be taken offline. I have looked at exmerge but am not sure if this would copy permissions etc if the edb’s are in use.

Is there a way of creating a second exchange 5.5 remotely and mirroring the accounts of the original exchange. (Exact copy – but the backup exchange server does not function unless the other one goes down.)

Please help – I am in grave danger.
Thanks
Mike

Sorry Mike,

I put my answer in the wrong place. Here you go

Have you thought about setting up a cluster for the Exchange server?

What this will do is to mirror everything that is on your exchange server and if any thing happens to the first server the second server will still be online.

Check out Microsoft Clustering software.