Recovering Exchange 2000

Is your Exchange 2000 Server environment a disaster waiting to happen? Exchange 2000's dependence on Windows 2000 Active Directory (AD) complicates Exchange 2000 disaster-recovery planning. Your recovery efforts might involve not just your Exchange team but also the people responsible for AD. Knowing how to back up and recover non-Exchange components, as well as being aware of recent changes in backup technologies, can help you plan and implement a course of action that can postpone disaster and speed recovery.

Determining Risk
As an Exchange administrator, you're probably responsible for several aspects of your company's disaster-recovery process. This process can include conducting a risk analysis that identifies the probability and impact of an outage according to specific points of risk, as Table 1 shows; developing a risk-mitigation plan that defines risk-mitigation techniques for each possible type of outage; and implementing the plan on a day-to-day basis. . . .