Roger,

Yes you can restore the Exchange Db to a different box, provided it is
within the same Exchange Org.
But only the info store not the directory.

There are ways and means to restore both  the directory and the info store
to a different box.. at least I saw someone post here before who was able to
do it, but only under the specific direction of Microsoft. Generally
speaking only the info store can be restore to a different exchange server.

Nathan



        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Roger Hohmann [SMTP:Roger_Hohmann AT WESTLB DOT DE]
        Sent:   Friday, July 16, 1999 8:51 AM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Re: Restoring Exchange

        I can remember our NT admin asked some guys at MS about this and, as
far
        as I remember, the response: you are *never* able to restore the
        exchange db to another box with different SID. Independent of adsm
or
        *any* other backup/restore tool.

        Please tell me if I'm wrong, we would need this, too.

        Regards

        Roger

        "Ittner, Sean" schrieb:
        >
        > Hello all - I am a newbie here but I thought I understood ADSM.  I
am trying
        > to restore my exchange database to another machine so that I can
recover a
        > mailbox.  I have followed all the steps from both the ADSM
documentation and
        > the Microsoft documentation but I cannot get the Information Store
to
        > restart after I have restored it.  The event viewer reports
problems with
        > the transaction logs and not being able to read them.  Am I
missing a step?
        > I installed exchange to the same service level, set the logging to
match the
        > production machine (no circular logging), restored the private
database
        > using the ADSM agent......
        > Anyone have experience making this work?
        >
        > Sean Ittner
        > Siemens Energy & Automation

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