Exchange 2007 Recovery Storage Group
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HELP!! :)
Short Version:
I have a database from a restore that I need to somehow reintegrate, but paths have been moved around and I'm not clear where to start.
Long Version: I had a single Domain Controller, Single Exchange 2007 Server with All Roles, and a Single Exchange 2007 SP Edge Server. My users mailboxes were on a local disk M: drive (and I think the log files for the First Storage Group were on the C Drive in the default location).
I archived my exchange vm, and upgraded it to Exchange 2007 SP1.
I then set up a remote iscsi server and migrated all of my users mailboxes to that machine.
Fast forward 3 weeks.
The iscsi server suffered a disk problem and the Raid was running in degraded mode so I migrated everything back to the original local disk M:.
THEN a totally unrelated catastrophy occurred.
My VM Server suffered some data loss during some snapshot removal, and my exchange vm was no longer bootable. the Windows installation was HORKED!
But the mailboxes were all safe on a the second local vm hard disk M:.
To make a long story short the exchange vm was a total loss, so i had to revert to the image which was 3 weeks old. I then upgraded the retored copy to SP1.
If I try and log into Outlook 2007 I get a disconnected status after repeated attempts to connect, OWA says the mailbox is unavailble because it is being migrated.
If I create a new Database in First Storage Group mount it then create a new user that user works fine to log into OWA (havent tried Outlook but at this point OWA is good enough!!!), the new user can send and receive with no problems.
I have copied the old database and log files back to the degraded iscsi server, they are also on the M: drive, but I cant begin to figure out where I need to start to get the mailboxes connected back to the user accounts.
HELP!!!
blogs are hard to troubleshoot on, I do answer questions on exchange-experts and is a good forum for that.
I would treat this as a database portability issue....
there are a few ways to handle this
1. make sure deleted item retension is on and delete the mbx and reconnect it
2. use database portablity to move the database, this will update the users info in AD and should fix the problem my blog on SCR had the steps to move the database in it
http://exchange-genie.blogspot.com/2007/08/scr-standby-continuous-replication.html
Hi,
nice article with screenshots.
I would inform you that you have some typos in your commands to merge mailbox data
Ex.: -RSGMailbo (x missing)
I would suggest that you could explain better how the command is used when restoring mailbox into another mailbox folder:
Restore-Mailbox -Identity 'TargetMailboxName' -RSGDatabase 'Servername\RecoveryStorageGroupName\Mailbox Database' -RSGMailbox 'SourceMailbox' -targetfolder 'RestorefolderofTargetMailbox'
Greetings
Wanted to say thank you very much! This article was exactly what I needed. Now I can press on with my migration from exch03 without having to worry about backups and restores.
Thanks again.
Clyde Burns
nepoz, thanks for the edit, I am sure I have a bunch of typos on here since I have written many of these late night....
As far as explaining what is going on, what type of information are you looking for?
Brian
clyde,
Glad I was able to help.... I am always looking for ideas on new articles
Brian
Nicely done and highly applicable to my last step before our official 03-07 migration!
thank you for your article, it was a great help!
Greetings !
I have successfully restored several times using the ExTRA, however my last attempt has resulted in my not being able to dismount the database in the recovery storage group. Although the dismount completes correctly when I attempt to remove the recovery storage group it says the database is still mounted. Caught in a loop. Help !!!
kris, I had the same problem when trying to dismount the database from the Database Recovery Management tool in the Toolbox(GUI). It said it dismounted the db successfully but in fact it wasn't! I got around it by dismounting the db and removing the recovery storage group from the Management Shell. Check out the commands above in this writeup for the Shell commands you need.
This article is exactly what I needed. Moreover it is well explained. Thanks...
Hi,
I have trouble finding a user in the RSG.
I use:
Get-mailbox -identity "username" RSGdatabase "RSGPATH"
I find some users but some users not
I can see these users that i am trying to find in the disconnected Mailboxes that they are in the RSG
I will a presiate some comments to thes matter..
Thanks
/Moisés
If your having trouble in the shell, try the gui wizard and see what is returned
Is there a similar work around for a user which was deleted out of AD?
out of the box no, however 3rd part tools like quest can assist. In Windows 7 (next windows release) you will be able to recover deleted objects from AD without 3rd party.
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