Alex, If your Disaster recovery refers to the same physical server being rebuilt with /disasterrecovery option, and provided you have good daily full backup of your Information store, and your Active directory is still in place it should work with no issues. What is you exact scenario? HTH. Regards, Raj Periyasamy MCSE(Messaging), CCNA ________________________________ From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:04 AM To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] exch 2003 restore has anybody done a disaster recovery test with exchange 2003 from just the flate database and log files that can share there success thanks