Currently have 3 servers. 1) 2000, AD + SQL 2000 2) 2003, AD + Exchange 2003 3) Terminal services. Planning on setting up a disastery recovery set of servers off site that would not communicate with the main office at all. On the DR side, there would only be 2 servers. One for AD, SQL and Exchange and the other for terminal services. I'm trying to figure out what is the best and most simple way to handle this.
I'm thinking I should set up the DR boxes with the same AD domain name and same Exchange instance name but not the same machine name. I would send the tape to the DR site and do an Exchange restore and utilize the "Automatically recreate user accounts and mailboxes" option so I don't have to worry about creating users or somehow replicating the AD users. Plus there is going to be only one DC opposed to 2 and figure the replication would be screwy. I'm guessing I would need to "redirect" the Exchange data since it's going to have a different box name. Also when I do subsequent restores to get the data up to date, I would just overwrite what is already on the DR boxes. SQL would be the same thing as Exchange I would guess. Just restore and overwrite data.
Currently we are using 10d, but planning on upgrading to 11d soon. Since I'm not 100% sure this would work, does this sound right? Am I overlooking something? Is this just plain not going to work? Or am I the smartest man alive? ;)
Message Edited by Mark Valpreda on 08-21-200704:13 PM
