Re: Real Life Restore Questions
- From: "Michael Vella" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:37:01 +0100
[exchangelist] Re: Backup/DR Systems for ExchangeHi,
Thank you for your email, though we would appreciate it if you would post your
question to the message boards or to the discussion list for everyone to see,
either myself or one of my colleagues will try to answer your queries. Most of
the members are administrators with Exchange server installations and you would
be able to benefit from their experience. Also, you would have the opportunity
to share your own experience with others in the future.
Links:
Message Boards: http://forums.msexchange.org
Discussion Lists: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist
Monthly Article Update: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp
Best Regards,
Michael Vella
Internet Software Marketing Ltd. - Online Network Administrator Portal
WindowsNetworking.com - ServerFiles.com - WindowSecurity.com
ISAserver.org - MSExchange.org - Secinf.net - NTfaxFAQ.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Spencer Read (Nemesis)
To: [ExchangeList]
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 11:23 AM
Subject: Real Life Restore Questions
Dear all,
First some history
August 2004 I moved companies and left the following system in pretty good
order
Dell Poweredge 1400SC
Windows 2000 Server SP4
C partition Windows, D partition Exchange files and all user data
Exchange 2000 Server SP3
Isa 2000 SP1 and FP1
Active Directory, DNS etc on 1 box - yes Andrew, I know - Bad Idea :-)
At the time this is all the money givers would allow!
15 hours ago I got a call saying the system had gone down on Wednesday and
the new Guy couldn't get it running again!
He said he has got D drive backup, Exchange and System State using NTBackup
Since then I have
Powered it on to find someone had deleted all the partitions!
Recreated C and D partitions
Reloaded Windows 2000 and SP4
Restored System State Backup
Ran Repair on Windows 2000 due to BSOD (Boot device inaccessible I think!)
That got me to the stage of being able to see AD Users and internal DNS looks
OK
Ran Exchange Disaster Recovery to reinstall program files.
Then comes the issue.
Exchange Services won't start to allow restore of backup.
I am currently downloading SP3 for exchange as my CD is at work and I am not!
Has anyone got any pointers as to what I've missed/done wrong?
It's worked before for me on other systems, but not this one!
TIA
...Spence
Other related posts:
