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racalvert -> Decommissioning Exchange 2003 Servers and Restores (3.Jun.2008 3:31:18 PM)

Hello all, hope this day finds you well.

I'm a bit of an Exchange rookie, so please excuse my question if it seems silly.  I've searched high and low for a definitive answer, but I've  yet to find one.  Perhaps I just haven't used the right search terms.

I am in the process of standing up new Exchange servers to replace our old hardware.  I'm about 99% finished with mailbox moves, public folder changes, etc. and I am trying to tie up all of the loose ends so this hardware can be removed/repurposed.  While practicing with restores and the RSG, it hit me that when I choose a database to be recovered, most likely the OLD databases won't be a choice once the old servers are decommissioned. 

So my question is... will I be able to restore from backups that were taken against the servers I am about to decom?  If that answer is 'no', I guess I will need to maintain the old servers for as long as I need to do restores from that data?

Sincerest thanks for any insight here.  :)

-Alan



123raghu -> RE: Decommissioning Exchange 2003 Servers and Restores (10.Jun.2008 7:09:46 PM)

Hi Alan,

Check out this link for solution "http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124429.aspx"



racalvert -> RE: Decommissioning Exchange 2003 Servers and Restores (11.Jun.2008 6:42:52 PM)

Hey thanks a lot for that link.  Unfortunately that isn't going to be an option for us as we've already migrated 99% of the mailboxes to new hardware. 

I will pose my main question again in case anyone has any feedback:


"While practicing with restores and the RSG, it hit me that when I choose a database to be recovered, most likely the OLD databases won't be a choice once the old servers are decommissioned. 

So my question is... will I be able to restore from backups that were taken against the servers I am about to decom?  If that answer is 'no', I guess I will need to maintain the old servers for as long as I need to do restores from that data? "


Cheers everyone...

-Alan



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