One thing you should note first, the hardware you're trying to restore should be the exact, as well as your configurations otherwise it will fail. Theres some KB articles that tries to show how to restore to diff hardware, but never got it too work too many discrepancies in registry with hardware to make it work. Choose orginal location and replace. ________________________________ From: Farhan Ahmed Khan (ITG) [mailto:farhank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 1:00 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] System State Restore http://www.MSExchange.org/ We are running Exchange 2003 on Windows Server 2000, I am restoring my system state backup to a new machine. I need to know some points. when I restore to a new windows 2000 machine it asks for where I restore files - Original Location - Alternate Location - Single Folder What is the best option to choose? Secondly it asks for When restoring files that already exist? - Do not replace the files on my disk - Replace the file on disk only if it is older then the backup copy - Always replace the file on disk What is the best option to choose? What we are trying to do is - restore the backup to a new machine and upgrade to Server 2003. TIA Farhan ------------------------------------------------------ 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: chongja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx