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ray_littlefie1
19 years agoLevel 6
Good question- I'm surprised there's not more replies. Do you have Exchange 2003? Couldn't you use the Recovery Storage Group?
In our environment we are not at exchange 2003 yet, so rather than have the whole offline replica of AD and the exchange server, we use a third party exchange archiving tool- Quest Recovery Manager for Exchange. It resores the database from tape and mounts it from an exchange emulation mode. This verifys the tape tape backup, and can easily restore messages/mailboxes into the live environment. There are other products from Commvault and from Veritas (enterprise Vault) that may do the same thing. I'm not sure this is the best exchange recovery validation, but I can say it is very easy.
In our environment we are not at exchange 2003 yet, so rather than have the whole offline replica of AD and the exchange server, we use a third party exchange archiving tool- Quest Recovery Manager for Exchange. It resores the database from tape and mounts it from an exchange emulation mode. This verifys the tape tape backup, and can easily restore messages/mailboxes into the live environment. There are other products from Commvault and from Veritas (enterprise Vault) that may do the same thing. I'm not sure this is the best exchange recovery validation, but I can say it is very easy.
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