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If your Exchange Server goes down and had to build another Exchange Server, how do you transfer your users mailboxes and emails onto the new Exchange Server? What files do you copy across to the new Exchange Server or is there no such thing and youlost everything.

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The good news is that it’s possible to get most of the data back (all of it, if you were NOT using the default of “circular logging”).
The bad news is that you’ll have to pour over a rather lengthy docment to find the information that fits your exact situation…
http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/exchange/technote/edrv3p1.asp

OVERVIEW
1. Stop all Exchange services.
2. Determine the location of the database and logs for the directory service and information store service (identifiable in registry)
3. Copy the DIR.EDB file (it should be in the DSADATA directory) to the directory service database path.
4. Copy any directory service log files to the directory service log path.
5. Copy the PRIV.EDB file to the private information store database path.
6. Copy the PUB.EDB file to the public information store database path.
7. Copy any information store log files to the information store service log path.
8. Start the Exchange directory service.
9. From the command prompt, change to the EXCHSRVR\BIN

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To continue from above…

9. From the command prompt, change to the EXCHSRVR\BIN directory and execute:
isinteg –patch
10. Start the information store service.

Also, here are where you can find the file locations:

Directory service log path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeDS\Parameters\Database log files path
Directory service database path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeDS\Parameters\DSA Database file
Information store service log path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\ParametersSystem\DB Log Path
Private information store database path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\ParametersPrivate\DB Path
Public information store database path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\ParametersPublic\DB Path

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The web page is not displaying step Nine above. the command to run is:
isinteg patch
where the is actually a dash.

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