portillosjohn
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"Backup" 2010 Exchange Server
Hello All,
I would like to setup a secondary exchange 2010 server for redudancy. They are shutting off the power for our corporate office (where our single install of exchange is installed) for a day and I want to be able to setup a secondary server offsite to handle delivering our mail during the outage. I would like to be able to use this server in the future as a fail safe for mail. What is the best way to go about doing this? Are there 3rd party apps or solutions for this kind of thing?
I would like to setup a secondary exchange 2010 server for redudancy. They are shutting off the power for our corporate office (where our single install of exchange is installed) for a day and I want to be able to setup a secondary server offsite to handle delivering our mail during the outage. I would like to be able to use this server in the future as a fail safe for mail. What is the best way to go about doing this? Are there 3rd party apps or solutions for this kind of thing?
akhalighi
what is the version ? standard or enterprise ?
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Standard
hmm .. not really good news for you , I struggle with the same issue . this is what small business usually use , standard edition does not support clustering through DAG .
Look at this thread ; has all recommendation and possible workarounds from Microsoft MVPs :
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/5ec18988-3745-41ca-b955-35e4895af413/
so basically , you need another exchange in an isolated environment ; then you should backup and restore the data store in a regular basis.
I use Microsoft DPM to backup exchange . it's a decent tool.
another option is to migrate into a managed email system ( e.g. Google) . that's the path that small businesses are moving toward - using cloud services.
Look at this thread ; has all recommendation and possible workarounds from Microsoft MVPs :
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/5ec18988-3745-41ca-b955-35e4895af413/
so basically , you need another exchange in an isolated environment ; then you should backup and restore the data store in a regular basis.
I use Microsoft DPM to backup exchange . it's a decent tool.
another option is to migrate into a managed email system ( e.g. Google) . that's the path that small businesses are moving toward - using cloud services.
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Rancy
DAG is not an option with Exchange server standard , it requires enterprise edition.
DAG is not an option with Exchange server standard , it requires enterprise edition.
ASKER
So the only option is to phyically move the server to another location if I know there is going to be an power outage for an extended period of time?
akhalighi: Please read this or any article on the Internet
Yes DAG is supported in the Exchange 2010 Standard edition
http://blogs.msexchange.org/walther/2009/10/27/yes-dag-is-supported-in-the-exchange-2010-standard-edition/
For DAG you need Windows Enterprise and Not Exchange :) cause Cluster works with Ent Windows.
- Rancy
Yes DAG is supported in the Exchange 2010 Standard edition
http://blogs.msexchange.org/walther/2009/10/27/yes-dag-is-supported-in-the-exchange-2010-standard-edition/
For DAG you need Windows Enterprise and Not Exchange :) cause Cluster works with Ent Windows.
- Rancy
Rancy , this is great information . Didn't see it Microsoft site though ...
akhalighi: Sorry buddy i dont agree with you :( .... but i know even i dont know a lot of things and am always in the learning curve :)
Planning for High Availability and Site Resilience
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638104.aspx
Software Requirements - Check this
DAGs are available in both Exchange 2010 Standard Edition and Exchange 2010 Enterprise Edition. In addition, a DAG can contain a mix of servers running Exchange 2010 Standard Edition and Exchange 2010 Enterprise Edition.
- Rancy
Planning for High Availability and Site Resilience
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638104.aspx
Software Requirements - Check this
DAGs are available in both Exchange 2010 Standard Edition and Exchange 2010 Enterprise Edition. In addition, a DAG can contain a mix of servers running Exchange 2010 Standard Edition and Exchange 2010 Enterprise Edition.
- Rancy
Rancy , no problem man .. I appreciate the inputs . it's great news and here is a learning curve for everyone. I am actually glad to know standard edition supports DAG. however most of the small to medium businesses are using windows standard edition.
So .. now our friend "portillosjohn" has one server and basically needs to know what can be done for their extended power outage .
portillosjohn , do you have any other offices connected over VPN or so ?
So .. now our friend "portillosjohn" has one server and basically needs to know what can be done for their extended power outage .
portillosjohn , do you have any other offices connected over VPN or so ?
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Yes we have another office that we are going to use as a secondary data center connected via vpn.
So as said you can get the New server as Standalone or in DAG and then move across all information to point to the new server and then move the old server out ......
But you my buddy have to decide with what do you want to proceed.
- Rancy
But you my buddy have to decide with what do you want to proceed.
- Rancy
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