Why not restore it to the Recovery Storage Group? Mark Fugatt Dedicated Supportability Engineer (Exchange) Microsoft Services Organisation Desk: +44 (0)118 909 5630 Mobile: +44 (0)7966 858108 MSN IM: markfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/mfugatt -----Original Message----- From: Lloyd Williams [mailto:Williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 08 December 2005 17:33 To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Testing a Full Exchange Backup http://www.MSExchange.org/ I would like to be able to test my backups by restoring them to a second server and then basically logging on to that server to examine the result of the restore. This seems to be harder to do than it should be My first thought was to create a second server in my Exchange organization and restore the backup to that server. However it doesn't seem possible as it looks like exchange only supports one mailbox per user per organization. The restore would create a second mailbox per user (on the second server) in the organization. It doesn't seem this is supported. My second thought was to create a second organization within the same active directory tree. But it looks like that is not supported by Active Directory. My third idea would be to create a totally separate tree plus organization but then none of my users would have accounts in this directory tree to be able to access the mailboxes unless I cloned one of my active directory servers. So how does one do this, it would be nice to be able to restore to another working server, then in the event of a disaster, one could do this much practiced restore, ( for real) and then just switch IP's on the server and be back in business How do other people test their backups? PS I have Exchange Enterprise 2003 on Standard Server 2003, in a single tree Active Directory setup Lloyd ------------------------------------------------------ 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: markfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx nfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx