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by maddiuex

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had a Exchange 2000 crash,. Have the backups, I rebuilt the server and named everything the same with Active Directory. What do I do from here, How can I extract the messages from the backups and import them into the new server. I have treid renaming the c:\program files\exchsrvr and restoring the original files to that location, then using Exmerge, but it crashes. Will not let me do the isinteg -patch nor the esutil /r items either. Please be as detailed as possible. I need to figure this oneout. Thanks

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by acattr

You don't need to do a patch in 2000, it does it automatically. Just make sure the "This database can be overwritten by a restore" is checked.

Try this URL on the procedure
http://tinyurl.com/248v

by acattr

if you backedup the exchsrvr folder, I hope you know that the email and public folder databases do not backup unless you had an open file agent on the server or if you stop exchange during the backup. That being said. stop the exchange services, and restore the entire mdbdata folder with in exchsrvr folder. Make sure you remove the existing files inside of the mdbdata folder.

PS: the exchange public and email database files are pub.edb and priv.edb respectively. so check your backup for these important files in the mdbdata folder.

If you backedup the server using an exchange agent, simply run the restore from the backup software. and check that checkbox again.

Good Luck.

by maddiuex

This did not work, I have the entire backup. Even the Exchange databases. I checked the box, and remounted the store. and it puts in the users. But takes all the names out of active directory, and when I put a username in that would correspond to the user, it will not show up in the exchange server. I look at the user's data and nothing is there. I have concluded that for the amount of employees this has become a mute point.

by maddiuex

You don't need to do a patch in 2000, it does it automatically. Just make sure the "This database can be overwritten by a restore" is checked.

Try this URL on the procedure
http://tinyurl.com/248v

From: wwwacny@yahoo.com Date: 10/21/02 Status: Not Rated -----------------
What then, Do I just need to restore the exchsrvr dir when i do the restore, or what other steps do I need to take ???

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