Disaster Recovery for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server
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Published: March 1, 2002
By Jon Hoerlein, Chris Frediani
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Many companies today lack a solid backup and recovery plan. Consider your own Microsoft® Exchange 2000 organization- what would happen today if a natural disaster or simple hardware failure destroyed all of your vital data? Are you confident that your recovery plan and your knowledge of disaster recovery processes are strong enough to help you recover your lost data? Even if you are reasonably confident, now is a good time to review your disaster recovery plan to ensure that you are doing everything possible to protect your company's valuable data.
To prevent the loss of business-critical data within your Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server organization, you must first develop and implement a well-planned backup strategy. This document will show you how to do just that. This document will also show you how to perform the necessary backup and restore procedures so that you can prepare for and implement a recovery should your organization experience a disaster.
Essentially, this document provides detailed answers to the following questions:
How do I plan and prepare my Exchange 2000 organization for disaster recovery?
Having planned and prepared my Exchange organization, what must I know about disaster recovery concepts, specifically disaster recovery technology and architecture?
Now that I understand disaster recovery concepts, what are the disaster recovery strategies I can implement?
With my disaster recovery strategy selected, how do I use the Backup utility to perform the backup and restore procedures?
Having prepared my organization and familiarized myself with disaster recovery technology, architecture, and strategies, how do I perform the necessary backup and restore procedures?
Details
Number of Pages: 321
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Planning and Preparing Your Exchange 2000 Organization for a Disaster
This chapter contains information about planning and preparing your Exchange 2000 organization with disaster recovery in mind, including what information you should have readily available and how you can make your organization fault tolerant.
Chapter 2: Understanding Disaster Recovery Concepts
This chapter contains general information about the architecture, technology and variations regarding disaster recovery processes.
Chapter 3: Selecting an Exchange 2000 Disaster Recovery Strategy
This chapter contains information about planning a backup strategy for your Exchange 2000 organization.
Chapter 4: Using the Windows 2000 Backup Utility for Backup and Restore Processes
This chapter contains general and procedural information about how to use the Windows 2000 Backup utility for backing up and restoring the information in your Exchange 2000 organization.
Chapter 5: Disaster Recovery Tables
This chapter contains tables that list the required preventative and recovery procedures for each disaster recovery scenario that may occur in your Exchange 2000 organization. Each procedure listed in the chart contains a hyperlink to the section in this book that explains, in detail, how to perform that procedure.
Chapter 6: Backing Up Exchange 2000
This chapter contains the backup procedures you must perform to safeguard your organization against computer-related disasters.
Chapter 7: Restoring Exchange 2000
This chapter contains the Exchange 2000 restoration procedures you must perform to recover from computer-related disasters.
Appendix : Useful Recovery Resources
This section contains additional resources to help you maximize your understanding of the disaster recovery issues discussed in this book. Many Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and technical papers discuss resolutions for particular errors that you may encounter during Exchange 2000 backup and restore operations.