Microsoft KB Archive/257415

= Running a Disaster Recovery Setup =

Article ID: 257415

Article Last Modified on 10/25/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q257415





SUMMARY
For the following reasons, you may use a disaster recovery setup by running the command, setup.exe /disasterrecovery:
 * If the Bin folder has been deleted accidentally.
 * If the MSExchange registry keys are deleted and there is no backup available of the registry.

For a successful disaster recovery, you must be sure to choose the same components for disaster recovery that are installed on the server you want to recover.



MORE INFORMATION

 * Make sure there is a valid backup of the databases.
 * You must mount the stores after you restart the server.
 * The disaster recovery setup replaces the directory hierarchy and the registry keys without re-adding the information to Active Directory.

Note If you are running Exchange Server in a cluster, you cannot perform a setup by using the /disasterrecovery switch. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

323016 XADM: Setup with disasterrecovery does not work on a clustered Exchange 2000 Server

Additional query words: XADM

Keywords: kbinfo KB257415

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