Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed

Recovering Exchange Application and Exchange Data

To recover an Exchange Server, there are several different ways of rebuilding the core Exchange server and restoring the Exchange data. The restoration of Exchange databases must be done to a server with the exact same server name as the original server where the databases were backed up from.

After the Active Directory and base Windows server(s) have been installed, the first process is installing or restoring the Exchange application software; the second process is installing the data files for Exchange.

Recovering Using Ntbackup.exe

When program and data files are corrupt or missing, or a previously backed-up copy is needed, the information can be restored using Ntbackup.exe if a previous backup ...