To recover to a stand-by recovery server

1. Determine if the hard drives of the server that experienced the disaster are undamaged, and then do one of the following:
   • If the hard drives are damaged, proceed to step 2.
   • If the hard drives appear undamaged,
     1. Remove the hard drives from the production server and install them to replace the drives in the stand-by recovery server.
     2. After starting the stand-by recovery server, verify that the disks are not damaged. To verify that the disks are not damaged, from a command prompt, run chkdsk /f for each drive.
     3. Open Exchange System Manager. If all your mailbox stores and public folder stores are mounted and available to Exchange users, you have successfully recovered from the disaster. If this process fails, replace the damaged drives with the drives that originally existed on the stand-by recovery server, and then proceed to step 2.
2. Ensure that the damaged server is no longer running, and then start the stand-by recovery server.
3. Restore your Windows backup set. Restoring your System State data and Windows operating system files restores the Windows 2000 registry database files that provide the rebuilt computer with its original NetBIOS name, returns the server to its original domain, and restores many other important files (such as the IIS metabase).
4. Restore your dynamic data from backup.
5. Run Exchange 2000 Setup in Disaster Recovery mode. This reclaims the Active Directory configuration information for the rebuilt server running Exchange 2000 and returns the Exchange 2000 files to the computer.
6. Reinstall any Exchange 2000 service packs in Disaster Recovery mode.
   When you install Exchange 2000 service packs, use the disaster recovery setup switch. This switch prevents the Exchange 2000 databases from being mounted at the end of the setup, so that you can proceed directly to restoring the databases from backup.
7. Restore Exchange 2000 database using Backup. To save time, consider running multiple instances of Backup simultaneously to reduce the time it takes perform the restore process.

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, Premium Edition
• Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, Standard Edition
• Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server