You need to either use recovery storage groups or use a third party tool such a ontrack powercontrols or the one from quest, which name escapes me just at this moment. Now, if you aren't going to restore an Exchange server with the same name, you're going to have problems if you don't clean up after yourself. See KB 822931. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Meelhuysen [mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 5:32 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Restore of Exchange with NT-Backup http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hello all, I have the following: My exchangeserver crashed. The harddisk with Server 2003 Enterprise and Exchange 2003 installed broke down. I have a backupfile of the informationstore created with the Exchangeclient in NTbackup. Now I have reinstalled my server. It has the same domain, but a different name and a different diskconfiguration. When I try to restore Exchange it automaticly tries to restore to the old server. But this does not exist anymore and I cannot restore it to the new server. Is there a way to bypass this? I also thought that when I manage to get the offline databasefiles I can extract the mailboxes so that I at least have the mail. But these files are in the BKF file and I cannot restore it to an alternate location. Does anybody know a tool which I can use to extract the files? Hope someone can help me. With kind regards, Mark ------------------------------------------------------ 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: michael@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx