Saturday, July 7, 2007

Exchange server 2003

Restore all the Exchange mailboxes without losing any data

One storage group with one mailbox store.

Mailbox store database file is located in D: drive.
The storage group log files are located in E:drive.

Every night, you perform full backup.

D:drive is crashed. You replace a new one.

How do you restore the database without losing any data?

Solution:

Because all log files are intact, you restore the mailbox store file but not the transaction log files from the backup set. And then, replay the existing transaction log files by deleting the check point file.