running exmerge from another server
- From: "geekomatic2000" <geekomatic2000@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:29:18 -0600
Well - it happened. Exchange farmed and our backups proved
inadequate. On the good news front we're a small shop and I
have managed to recover most of the mail from local OSTs and
PSTs only at the cost of my weekend. But of course there are
gaps.
And yes the boss does see my point now about giving me a box
to test our backup restores. Our main servers are loaded up
with our own and other 3rd party stuff.
After much pain I've managed to copy the entire exchsrvr dir
onto another server. My question is I try to run exmerge and
it wants to connect to the exchange server which reboots
every time I try to start the exchange services. Any way to
run exmerge on another server?
Would re-installing exchange over the top of itself help?
The OS seems generally OK but if there some way to install
win2k again and exchange I'd give it a go.
I've taken an image of the ailing server so can get as
experimental as I like.
Any reg hacks to get the database to read on another exchange
server install?
The AD seems Ok. Is it going to help me to run up exchange
on another dc in this forest?
Yes I know about Exchange Server Recovery but don't have the
budget. I've done much RTFM but am out of my depth on this
one.
And if we r really screwed any tips/links about using win2k
backup on exchange. The server won't have the tape drive in
it.
Much TIA
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