asked on Exporting Exchange and Active directory data off a HDD
I have a server which the MB died and so a replacement server is being built. I want to grab the exchange and AD data off the old server HDD (which is still fine) and import it in to the fresh SBS2003 install. What is the easiest way to do this?
I also have a backup of the system state and exchange on an external drive. Is it easier to do a restore of these backups or somehow grab the data off the old server HDD (which is a couple of days more recent).
any help would be greatly appreciated
Regards
I also have a backup of the system state and exchange on an external drive. Is it easier to do a restore of these backups or somehow grab the data off the old server HDD (which is a couple of days more recent).
any help would be greatly appreciated
Regards
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kymd26
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The MB failed while the server was going (it ended up having 3 or 4 manual Reboots - ie. turned off at the switch on the PSU) so i guess it wasn't in a "clean state".
Thought that might be the case - in which case you'd definitely want to go to backup rather than try and get the data from the drive. May still be worth trying to boot from the drive put into another server though (once it is imaged, of course).
If you have the backups taken - try checking for log files in the HDD (3-4 days back if that is what u mentioned)
Reason: If you restore a backup from few days back, then the logs which were generated (in other words the emails those came in) will not be replayed magically into the database. Hence, the end user looses all those data that was generated post backup.
Hope you got the point.
Reason: If you restore a backup from few days back, then the logs which were generated (in other words the emails those came in) will not be replayed magically into the database. Hence, the end user looses all those data that was generated post backup.
Hope you got the point.
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Cloned the drive and installed in another PC (both original and replacement was using Intel Desktop MB) and fired it up, ran a disk check and did a bit of tweaking but it fired up ok and is actually working ok now in the replacement box.
thanks for your help
thanks for your help