It seems a bit of an over kill for me.. If you have good backups then there should be need to worry. How tidy is the hardware? Greg Mulholland 200gb should be enough for anyone! -----Original Message----- From: Sarbjit Singh Gill [mailto:ssgill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 8:46 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Shutdown Exchange Database http://www.MSExchange.org/ Do No.1 and then shutdown the server START --> SHUTDOWN ---> SHUTDOWN EVENT TRACKER: Application (Maintenance)Planned. -----Original Message----- From: rolamohammed [mailto:rolamohammed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 4:22 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Shutdown Exchange Database http://www.MSExchange.org/ Dear All, today, we are going to shutdow all the servers in our company, because the Electricity is going to shutdown for 2 days. Now, i need to know what if the procedures which i will follow it to shutdown the server is correct or not ? if not what is the correct ? 1- First Take a full Online backup from Exchange server & System state of the server . 2- Dismount the mailbox store . 3- take an offline backup from the exchange server Database ( Priv1.edb & Priv1.stm ). 4- take a copy from the log file. 5- shutdown the server. is that correct ? ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: ssgill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx