Backup Exchange 2003 Enterprise server?   

My agency doesn't have the money to fund a full disaster recovery setup for 
Exchange 2003 Enterprise, but I'm wondering if this will work.
Setup a second Exchange 2003 Ent. server in one of our remote offices, leave 
the Exchange services turned off, backup production Exchange server to remote 
office. If production server goes down, turn on Exchange services at remote 
site, replace mail store and logs on second Exchange server with backup from 
production.
I know that I would have to change everyone's outlook profile, but will this 
work?

date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:28:01 -0800   author:   Cwhitmore

Re: Backup Exchange 2003 Enterprise server?   

There is some guidance from Microsoft about standby servers.
Read this chapter: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997006.aspx, 
from the Disaster Recovery Guide 
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125070.aspx)

And here's a great presentation:
"Catastrophic Hardware Failure & Recovery with Exchange Server 2003"
http://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/technet/learning/downloads/roadshows/TechNet%20Day%20-%20Best%20of%20TechNet%20-%20Catastrophic%20Hardware%20Failure%20Recovery%20-%2029th%20March%20-%20Eileen%20Brown.ppt

-- 
Rui Silva
MVP Windows Server System - Exchange Server
Blog "subject: exchange", http://msmvps.com/ehlo

"Cwhitmore"  wrote in message 
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> My agency doesn't have the money to fund a full disaster recovery setup 
> for
> Exchange 2003 Enterprise, but I'm wondering if this will work.
> Setup a second Exchange 2003 Ent. server in one of our remote offices, 
> leave
> the Exchange services turned off, backup production Exchange server to 
> remote
> office. If production server goes down, turn on Exchange services at 
> remote
> site, replace mail store and logs on second Exchange server with backup 
> from
> production.
> I know that I would have to change everyone's outlook profile, but will 
> this
> work?
>

date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:44:24 -0000   author:   Rui Silva [MVP] rjms1808(nospam4me)@hotmail.com

Re: Backup Exchange 2003 Enterprise server?   

On Jan 11, 9:28 am, Cwhitmore 
wrote:
> My agency doesn't have the money to fund a fulldisasterrecovery setup forExchange2003 Enterprise, but I'm wondering if this will work.
> Setup a secondExchange2003 Ent. server in one of our remote offices, leave> theExchangeservices turned off, backup productionExchangeserver to remote
> office. If production server goes down, turn onExchangeservices at remote
> site, replace mail store and logs on secondExchangeserver with backup from> production.
> I know that I would have to change everyone's outlook profile, but will this
> work?

No, this will not work.  You will also need to re-home your user's
mailboxes.  See my post here...

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.exchange.misc/browse_thread/thread/a363dc9a6e14a235/001c548feeed0118?hl=en#001c548feeed0118

DB

date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:00:20 -0800 (PST)   author:   daveberm