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Exchange 2007 LCR in Disaster Recovery
LockedWe are in middle of upgrade or basically in coexistence mode with exchange 2000. I have activated LCR for my Exchange 2007 storage group on a separate drive. My Exchange server has the following config for its logs and databases;
C: (Array 1 Local to machine) OS +Exchange 2007 SP1
D: (Array 2 Local to machine) storage group Databases public folders an mailbox
E: (Array 3 Local to machine) Transaction logs.
G: (ISCSI SAN) LCR copy
My idea is to use LCR as an in house recovery method of total disaster. Meaning Exchange server totally gone. In other words, No C:, no D: and no E: drives available. I am planning to create a VM version of current Exchange and activate it if exchange server crashes. Obviously the host that will run VM version of Exchange will have virtual path to E: and D: even though the info in those drives might be outdated, as well as a G: drive to ISCSI SAN to access LCR copy of Database and logs.
My only worry is; when I activate the VM, would it simply ignore what it has in its logs folder and read the LCR copy? Or will complain that has no clue on what logs are not valid and basically dies on me.
Would be nice to tell exchange to forget what logs have been applied and replicated and basically blindly read the LCR copy.Anyone has run into this situation before?
Many thanks for reading this 🙂