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Drew Campbell - 09 Oct 2006 16:46 GMT

One of our clients is using Exchange 2000, and we just installed it on a
second server for quick disaster recovery. We want the second server to be
completely identical, so when one goes down, network users can retreive their
mail from the other one instantaneously. I was able to set the public
mailboxes to automatically replicate to the other server, but I can't figure
out how (or if it's possible) to set up automatic replication of private
mailboxes. Can anyone help? Thanks.

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Chris Calderon - 10 Oct 2006 09:43 GMT

The replication of the mailstore is not possible. If the chance of a
disaster, you'd have to restore the database or server depending on what
type of outage it is. If immediate mail service is needed, you can use the
Dial-Tone Method to get the user operational while you recover the
databases.

Below covers everything you need to prepare for an Exchange Disaster.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/library/disrecopgde.mspx

Chris

> One of our clients is using Exchange 2000, and we just installed it on a
> second server for quick disaster recovery. We want the second server to
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> out how (or if it's possible) to set up automatic replication of private
> mailboxes. Can anyone help? Thanks.

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Pardeep Singh - 14 Oct 2006 20:35 GMT

You better implement a cluster.

Pardeep Singh
Systems Administrator -Messaging, India

> The replication of the mailstore is not possible. If the chance of a
> disaster, you'd have to restore the database or server depending on what
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> > out how (or if it's possible) to set up automatic replication of private
> > mailboxes. Can anyone help? Thanks.

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Chris H - 06 Nov 2006 20:01 GMT

You should look in to implementing a cluster if your service level
agreements for restoring mail in the event of a disaster are that
short. Or, in the alternative, you can look at a product like
Double-Take that will replicate the mail store to another server and
then fail it over based on criteria that you set.

>One of our clients is using Exchange 2000, and we just installed it on a
>second server for quick disaster recovery. We want the second server to be
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>out how (or if it's possible) to set up automatic replication of private
>mailboxes. Can anyone help? Thanks.

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