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Exchange 2007 DR Testing
- Hi forum members,
How are you all guys...I want a solution for one setup...Actually i am using Exchange 2007 with Mailbox role in one server and HUB/CAS Role in another server and having 2 DC's....I am using CA arcserve for exchange backup...I like to test AD and Exchange DR testing so i setup separate VLAN for testing and created like as a live environment (same host names of DC's,Exchange server, same domain name etc..). I successfully backup and restore primary DC system state date, and it become Primary DC in test setup. Then I installed Exchange 2007 server roles using RECOVERSERVER switch and it is also installed successfully... After created this setup, when i try to restore exchange mbx db backup taken by arcserve, it is not directly restore backup db into original db. alternatively it create RSG and stores the mailbox content. When i try to merge the mbx to users it stops after 10 mins with successful message. but when i check eventvwr it shows
Event ID 1008 Source:Exchange Migration
The restore-mailbox task for mailbox 'mailbox' failed.
Error: Failed to copy messages to the destination mailbox store with error: The operation was cancelled.
so what i want to know is
1.why this event happen and why merge operation stops after 10 mins? Is it natural to stop after 10 mins?
2.when i merge the user mails, all the mails are storing directly into inbox. so is there any way to store mail from separate folder into their corresponding folder for e.g. (backup)inbox-->(restoring)inbox,(backup)sent items-->(restoring)sent items...
Please help very very urgent.....
Saravanan
Answers
- Instead of running this from GUI , can you try this
Restore-Mailbox -Identity <target mailbox> -RSGDatabase "<recovery storage group>\<recovery store>" -RSGMailbox <source mailbox> -targetfolder <target folder>
and your answers are
1. No, its not normal.
2. Yes , this is possible. See the Shell command
Restore all RSG content of mailbox testE12mbx1 to a folder called Backup inside the currently used testE12mbx2 mailbox:
MSH> restore-mailbox -RSGMailbox 'testE12mbx1' -RSGDatabase 'Recovery Storage Group\Mailbox Database' -id 'testE12mbx2' -TargetFolder ‘Backup’
Raj- Marked As Answer byJames-LuoMSFT, ModeratorFriday, November 06, 2009 3:15 AM
- Proposed As Answer byRajnish R Sharma Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:22 AM
Per my knowledge, there’s a bug for merging/copying large mailboxes (2 GB plus) from RSG into live mailbox by using Exchange Disaster Recovery Analyzer Tool. And, the workaround has been provided by Rajnish
It has been fixed in exchange 2007 SP2
- Marked As Answer byJames-LuoMSFT, ModeratorFriday, November 06, 2009 3:15 AM
- Proposed As Answer byJames-LuoMSFT, ModeratorThursday, November 05, 2009 4:36 AM
All Replies
- Instead of running this from GUI , can you try this
Restore-Mailbox -Identity <target mailbox> -RSGDatabase "<recovery storage group>\<recovery store>" -RSGMailbox <source mailbox> -targetfolder <target folder>
and your answers are
1. No, its not normal.
2. Yes , this is possible. See the Shell command
Restore all RSG content of mailbox testE12mbx1 to a folder called Backup inside the currently used testE12mbx2 mailbox:
MSH> restore-mailbox -RSGMailbox 'testE12mbx1' -RSGDatabase 'Recovery Storage Group\Mailbox Database' -id 'testE12mbx2' -TargetFolder ‘Backup’
Raj- Marked As Answer byJames-LuoMSFT, ModeratorFriday, November 06, 2009 3:15 AM
- Proposed As Answer byRajnish R Sharma Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:22 AM
Per my knowledge, there’s a bug for merging/copying large mailboxes (2 GB plus) from RSG into live mailbox by using Exchange Disaster Recovery Analyzer Tool. And, the workaround has been provided by Rajnish
It has been fixed in exchange 2007 SP2
- Marked As Answer byJames-LuoMSFT, ModeratorFriday, November 06, 2009 3:15 AM
- Proposed As Answer byJames-LuoMSFT, ModeratorThursday, November 05, 2009 4:36 AM
