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Ntbackup hangs restoring exchange server.
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| William Korvine 2003-01-09, 11:24 am |
| Summary:
I used ntbackup to backup the information store of one
exchange server. I am trying to restore it to another
exchange server. The restore process hangs at byte
1,893,725,984. The clock on the dialog advances (so
it's not completely hung), but the byte count does
not advance. I have waited up to 16 hours.
I have done this before. I do not know what is
different now.
Details:
As an exercise relevant to my job, I wanted to
duplicate a live exchange server on my lab domain.
I proceded according to this source:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?
url=/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/exchange2000/support/mailbox.asp
This document guided me the last time I (sucessfully)
did this. In particular, I have:
Ensured that the following match the original:
Organization name
Administrative group name
Storage group name
Logical database name
LegacyExchangeDN names on critical system objects
Dismounted the stores.
One difference might be that the computer name of the target
is different from that of the source. But I think it was
different last time it worked.
I tried restoring twice with one backup, then made a second and
tried to restore that. Always it stalls at the same byte.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
William Korvine
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| J. A. Logan 2003-01-14, 12:24 pm |
| This was your first mistake, NTBackup stinks. Even though te exam states
you should use it, it really sucks with open files which exchange will
always have. You have to use Backup Exec, or (IMHO), Arcserve with open
file manager. I found this to be the best lower cost system for backups.
William Korvine wrote:
>Summary:
>
>I used ntbackup to backup the information store of one
>exchange server. I am trying to restore it to another
>exchange server. The restore process hangs at byte
>1,893,725,984. The clock on the dialog advances (so
>it's not completely hung), but the byte count does
>not advance. I have waited up to 16 hours.
>
>I have done this before. I do not know what is
>different now.
>
>Details:
>
>As an exercise relevant to my job, I wanted to
>duplicate a live exchange server on my lab domain.
>I proceded according to this source:
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?
>url=/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/exchange2000/support/mailbox.asp
>
>This document guided me the last time I (sucessfully)
>did this. In particular, I have:
>
> Ensured that the following match the original:
> Organization name
> Administrative group name
> Storage group name
> Logical database name
> LegacyExchangeDN names on critical system objects
> Dismounted the stores.
>
>One difference might be that the computer name of the target
>is different from that of the source. But I think it was
>different last time it worked.
>
>I tried restoring twice with one backup, then made a second and
>tried to restore that. Always it stalls at the same byte.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>William Korvine
>
>
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| Stephen Watkins 2003-01-18, 12:24 am |
| The only problem I've had with Backup Exec is that the job often reports
that it's failed because it can't gain exclusive access to either the
Exchange account database, or the transaction logs.
"J. A. Logan" <jaloganmcse@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:3E244911.9050904@earthlink.net...
> This was your first mistake, NTBackup stinks. Even though te exam states
> you should use it, it really sucks with open files which exchange will
> always have. You have to use Backup Exec, or (IMHO), Arcserve with open
> file manager. I found this to be the best lower cost system for backups.
>
> William Korvine wrote:
>
> >Summary:
> >
> >I used ntbackup to backup the information store of one
> >exchange server. I am trying to restore it to another
> >exchange server. The restore process hangs at byte
> >1,893,725,984. The clock on the dialog advances (so
> >it's not completely hung), but the byte count does
> >not advance. I have waited up to 16 hours.
> >
> >I have done this before. I do not know what is
> >different now.
> >
> >Details:
> >
> >As an exercise relevant to my job, I wanted to
> >duplicate a live exchange server on my lab domain.
> >I proceded according to this source:
> >
> >http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?
> >url=/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/exchange2000/support/mailbox.asp
> >
> >This document guided me the last time I (sucessfully)
> >did this. In particular, I have:
> >
> > Ensured that the following match the original:
> > Organization name
> > Administrative group name
> > Storage group name
> > Logical database name
> > LegacyExchangeDN names on critical system objects
> > Dismounted the stores.
> >
> >One difference might be that the computer name of the target
> >is different from that of the source. But I think it was
> >different last time it worked.
> >
> >I tried restoring twice with one backup, then made a second and
> >tried to restore that. Always it stalls at the same byte.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> >William Korvine
> >
> >
>
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| "Stephen Watkins" <swatkins@nospam.clear.net.nz> wrote in message news:<PU5W9.301$7O1.55091@news02.tsnz.net>...
> The only problem I've had with Backup Exec is that the job often reports
> that it's failed because it can't gain exclusive access to either the
> Exchange account database, or the transaction logs.
Of course it fails. What do you think the backup agent for exchange is for........
You could always try stopping the exchange services....
HTH PHIL NIMBUS
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