Go to www.match.com -----Original Message----- From: rolamohammed [mailto:rolamohammed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 12:32 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Exchaange Backup & restore plan- urgent help http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi All, My name is Rola Mohammed, i am cute girl , my age is 28 Years , i am from Egypt. i am still new to the world of exchange. while i am thinking of Exchange Plan for Backup & Restore. i have here 3 Servers, One Domain Controller , & One ISA SERVER WITH 2 NIC, One Exchange server 2003 Enterprise edition. WHILE i am planing to backup, he told me , that incase of any disaster & you are unable to retrive the exchange server backup, just only take it out from Network & then do the following :- 1- Take the Backup of the system state of the exchange server which you take it on weekly basics & then but infront of you. 2- formate the server completely. 3- install the same operating system and with the same configuration for the drivers & Partion. 4- donot join the server to the domain at all. 5- restore the System State to the server . 6- restart the server . 7- then join the server to the doamin. 8- Put the exchange CD & run the Normal Commands - Forest Prep & Domain Prep- 9- run restore DB to restore the DB 9- then you will find that the exchange server is return back to the same status and no one of users say something about it, My question, is that correct ? and is that correct to run forest prep agian ? please some one guide me to the correct steps . rola ------------------------------------------------------ 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: mjtech@xxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx