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Restoring pub.edb & priv.edb on another machine

Hello,

We have bought a new mailserver with larger capacity to run our Exchange 5.5 database.

After stopping the exchange services, i did a backup of both pub.edb and priv.edb and now i want to restore them onto the new machine, which has a different name then the old machine.

If i restore both edb files, do i need to run special commands (like eseutil or something)

Please help!

Marnik

Vick Vega

This will not work.
COMPUTER NAME , DOMAIN , EXCHANGE ORGANIZATION , SERVICE ACCOUNT must be the same as the original server.
When you'll setup the exact same server there a path which you should take in order to bring databases up.
First of all setup the server from scratch.

slink9

Restoring Exchange Directory - http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q162353
Restoring To Offline Recovery Server - http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q180003
Yes, it does appear that the names need to be the same. Is there a reason you want the new name to be different?

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marnik

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ISINTEG -patch did the job.
AND i could use a different name!

Regards,
Marnik

kevala

Only bad thing about restoring the pub.edb to a server with the different name....is you will never be able to replicate public folders properly.....pub.edb is server specific when replication comes into play....<-_->

Restoring pub.edb &amp; priv.edb on another machine

Restoring pub.edb & priv.edb on another machine