what are the step by steop recovery of exchange cluster failure? I currently backup C, system state, quorum - weekly database full - weekly logs, differential daily what if the quorum gets corrupted?
> what if the quorum gets corrupted? Hi, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172951 http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/041aa127-0f8a-41f1-b4c3-fd9b420809df1033.mspx?mfr=true If you're interested in disk signature issues: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;243195 Oliver
More, If the device that holds the quorum resource fails and cannot be brought online, the Cluster Service will not start. It can be started with a special parameter that starts the Cluster Service without a quorum resource. Then the administrator can use the Cluster Administrator utility to select a new quorum resource. To correct a quorum resource failure, implement the following: 1. Shut down one cluster member. Only one node should be running. 2. Use the Services option from Control Panel to stop the Cluster Service if it is running. 3. In the Startup Parameters box, enter "-fixquorum," then start the Cluster Service. 4. Use the Cluster Administrator utility to modify the properties of the cluster and select a new quorum resource. 5. Use the Services option in Control Panel to stop and restart the Cluster Service. This clears the fixquorum parameter that was passed. It is not necessary to clear anything from the Startup Parameters box, because anything entered is not saved. 6. Reboot the second cluster member. This works as long as there is more than one physical disk on the shared SCSI bus. The fixquorum parameter does not bring the quorum disk online. Therefore, it is not possible to move the quorum resource from one partition to another on the same disk, since the disk is offline. Oliver
