Rehoming the exchange objects to the source, Re-enabling protection – HP Storage Mirroring V5 Software User Manual
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6.
Do not
select
Continue
or
Stop
at this time. First, reconnect the source to the network.
7.
After the source is available on the network, select
Continue
(to restart monitoring) or
Stop
to disable
monitoring.
8.
To begin the restoration process, open the Storage Mirroring Management Console on the target (
Start
,
Programs
,
Storage Mirroring
,
Management Console
).
9.
Login to the source machine by double-clicking on it.
10.
Right-click on the original connection (
xdag01_
for Exchange,
sqldag01_
for SQL, or
FilePrint_
for file servers)
and select
Disconnect
.
11.
Select
Tools
,
Restoration Manager
.
12.
Complete the appropriate fields on the Restoration Manager.
•
Original Source
—The source where the data originally resided.
•
Restore From
—The target that contains the replicated data that users have been updating.
•
Replication Set
—The name of the replication set.
•
Restore To
—The source where the data will be restored to.
13.
Disable
Only if backup copy is more recent
. This option must be disabled because if the services were stopped
on the source after the time they were stopped on the target, the source files will have a more recent date
and time and the target files will not be restored.
14.
Identify the correct drive mappings for the data and any other restoration options necessary. For detailed
information on the restoration options, see the Storage Mirroring
User's Guide
.
15.
On the Orphans tab, select to move or delete orphan files on the source.
Orphan files, such as out-dated
transaction logs, may keep the database from starting on the source. For more information about orphan
files, see the Storage Mirroring
User’s Guide
.
16.
Verify that the selections you have made are correct and click
Restore
. The restoration procedure time will
vary depending on the amount of data that you have to restore.
When the restoration process is complete, the restoration status information will no longer appear in the
right pane.
17.
If you are performing a failback for an Exchange server, continue to the next section, ”
Exchange objects to the source
”, to complete the restoration process.
If you are performing a failback for a SQL server, continue to ”
complete the restoration process.
Rehoming the Exchange objects to the source
After the restoration is complete, you will need to run the Exchange Failover utility (
exchfailover.exe
) to
rehome the informational store databases to the source. For more information about using the Exchange
Failover utility, see ”
Using the Exchange Failover (EFO) Utility
1.
From a command prompt on the source, run the
post_restore.bat
file that Application Manager
automatically generated.
2.
Restart any Outlook clients so that they can access the source.
To re-establish protection of the Exchange data on the source, create a replication set, re-establish the Storage
Mirroring connection to the target, and begin failure monitoring as documented earlier in the procedure.
If DNS failover was selected, the clients will have to wait for the IP cache to expire, or type in “
ipconfig
/flushdns
” in a command window. This time can be adjusted by lowering the TTL (Time to Live) setting within
your DNS server’s configuration. For more information, refer to your DNS server documentation.
Re-enabling protection
To re-enable protection for your source, repeat the steps in ”
” on page 55, or ”
You can click the
Enable Protection
button to re-enable protection for the same source/target pair.