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latham
17 years agoLevel 3
Jay,
General Steps for an offline DR restore of exchange databases and logs. (Environment I’ve confirmed testing on is Server 03 SP2, Exchange 03 SP2, Backup Exec 11d 7170)
- Create your offline Active Directory environment (sounds like you have this completed)
- RESET (don’t delete) the computer account for the exchange server in your offline AD environment. This ensures the new target restore server has all the proper permissions and group setup to properly function in AD.
- Setup your target restore exchange server with the same configuration as your production exchange server. For example if you have the O/S and exchange application files on C:\, the exchange database files on D:\, and the exchange logs on E:\, you’ll need C,D,E partitions on the target restore server with the appropriate storage to accommodate the DBs and logs.
- Patch your restore server O/S to the same version as production O/S.
- Join the target restore server to the offline AD domain under the reset account.
- Run the exchange server setup with /disasterrecovery switch.
- I also run the SP1 and SP2 install with the /disasterrecovery switch but not sure if this is necessary.
- Bring your restore media in and inventory and catalog it.
- Run a restore per http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/235756.htm
Hope this helps.
Ryan
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