Last Thursday night I had the distinct privilege of participating in a real life Exchange 2010 disaster recovery scenario. Roughly 41,000 mailboxes on 22 databases had the DAG ripped out from underneath them accidentally. When I say ‘ripped out from underneath them’ I mean literally that; everything was removed, including all the cluster resources and [...]
Tagged disaster recovery, exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange Server1.) Launch an elevated command prompt. (Right Click on Command Prompt –> Run as Administrator) 2.) Execute the command wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:D: while substituting D: for another drive letter if needed. To my knowledge you can’t backup to a folder unfortunately. Possibly Related Posts: Outlook 2010 Question How to perform a System State Backup [...]
Tagged disaster recovery, exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange ServerI started using BareTail about 3-4 years ago when I was doing migrations (Quest Migration tools have a large number of logs) and I’ve been using it ever since then. If you have a need to monitor log files in Windows, go download BareTail from Bare Metal Software. It’s free, no installation or registration required. [...]
Tagged disaster recovery, exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange ServerI have WordPress Permalinks enabled but forgot to enable mod_rewrite after moving this site so everything was returning a 404. Since I moved this site back to my own server I had the pleasure of enabling mod_rewrite myself. Visions of a long night danced through my head as I thought I would have to recompile [...]
Tagged disaster recovery, exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange Server