Hello all.... thanks for the outpour of help.... Lacaille, and Joel... Lorie is right about the restoring process mentioned,.... you have to have the server organisation name as the same as the one you had earlier.... .. Infact there is a white paper on that from microsoft. Its called the e2kdbrecovery I think you can search for it on the internet.. if not please let me know qand I will mail yuou all the whitepaper... now today was a very busy day.. and I had planned that I would install an AD with the same name as the actuals and also the same server name and the organisation name and all that... but forgot to check that part at the time of the installation... will take the AD off now and then rename the server and go with the reccomendatioons of Lorie... I hope it works. infact microsoft had clearly outlined the guidelines for a disaster recovery in the event of even the crash of the active directory itself in this document.... I shall keep yyou all informed of the progeress made on this.. Thanks a Zillion guys.... infact I am plannign to try a recovery on this server without changi g the ad and the server name.. lets see what happend otherwie I stiill have the option of changing it to what the production is like... except for the hardware part.. I dont havce any server with the same hardware specs.. thanks for the wishes guys and i wil inform you of the outcome.. REgards -----Original Message----- From: Lorie Gordon [mailto:lgordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 7:57 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Help Please!!!! http://www.MSExchange.org/ I just did this last week and it was quite a project. If you are setting up Exchange on a backup server you need to make sure that the new server is off the network and it must be it's own DC in a new forest. Set the organization name the same as your production server. Actually, I made everything the same just to be safe (Including the server name). I use Backup Exec and after many tries it finally works the way I want it to. After you restore the Information store, create a user in AD and connect it to the mailbox that you want to restore. I installed Outlook on the backup server for single mailbox recovery. Now I can export all the mail from the mailbox to a PST and import it back into my production server. I hope this helps! -----Original Message----- From: Lacaille, Michael [ mailto:MLacaille@xxxxxxxx <mailto:MLacaille@xxxxxxxx> ] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:08 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Help Please!!!! http://www.MSExchange.org/ <http://www.MSExchange.org/> I have not done this, but we have just recently helped another Exchange administrator on site implement Tivoli back up for our server. From what I understand about restoring the IS, is that it would need to be put on a server that is identical to the existing server. I hope that someone else who has more experience, can assist you with this issue. Good luck! -----Original Message----- From: Muqeem Syed [ mailto:Syed.Muqeem@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Syed.Muqeem@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:39 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Help Please!!!! Importance: High http://www.MSExchange.org/ <http://www.MSExchange.org/> Hello to all Exchange Guru's I have to restore the mail of a single user from the information store.... my presumption .. its not possible without restoring the entire information store... and the backup has been performed on ArcServe without the brock level option. I want to restore the entire information store (If it comes to that ) on a different machien that has entirely different hardware specs from the actual machine. I have recreated a compleltely different active directory..now I need help as to how to proceed.. can I install exchange on that machine with the new active directory (new domain contrller in a physoically different network) and restore then install exchange and then restore the information store on that machine...?? Please help ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: mlacaille@xxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: lgordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: syed.muqeem@xxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')