Here are a few docs from Microsoft's web site. Note that I have not read over these... http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodt echnol/exchange/plan/DISASTER.asp http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/tceve nts/itevents/exchange55/tnq20015.asp There is also a good whitepaper on MS's site that I cannot find now, titled something like Exchange backup and recovery, part 1 and part 2. Matt -----Original Message----- From: mikechange@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mikechange@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 5:40 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Exchange redundancy and disaster recovery http://www.MSExchange.org/ 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.) thanks ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: matt.walkowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')