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EXCHANGE SERVER 5.5 BACKUP/RESTORE

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by sohai.shamoon

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i am using exchange server 5.5. i am testing troubleshooting procedures. so i just installed one more PC with exact servername/domain and organisation/site but not yet connected to the network. i am using NT4 SP6, exch 5.5 SP4. I want to restore data from ARCSERVE 6.61 backup into this new server. then I will down my old server for a few seconds and see if this new server is functioning properly. if everythingis OK i will revert back to the old server. this is to safeguard as a disaster recovery purpose. How do i do it ? please can anybody give me the steps ?

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by rcc

IF your are running one server only with only the Internet Mail connector utility, make sure that you stop the IMC and any other transports while testing the new server. This will prevent inbound and outbound messages being queued. If you make sure that your transport connectors are stopped and no client from you network will try to send messages, you should be able to revert back with no problem. Otherwise you will have to copy your transaction logs and message queues over to the old server toinsure consistency.

I hope this answer your question, on the theory side. I am not familiar with the ArcServe, we have been succesfully using the native ntbackup utility for over 3 years now in a multisite, multiserver environment.

Regards, Radu

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