Enable Local Continuous Replication on an Exchange 2007 storage group |
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| 14 Feb 2008 | SearchExchange.com |
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The LCR feature is enabled on a Storage Group level under the Mailbox subnode, located
beneath the Server Configuration work center node in the left pane of the Exchange System
Management Console, as shown in Figure 8.2.
- To enable LCR for the First Storage Group, select it in the work pane, and click
Enable local continuous replication in the Action pane.
Figure 8.2 The Local Continuous Replication link in the Action pane. (Click on image for enlarged view.)
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This will bring up the Local Continuous Replication Wizard's Introduction page,
shown in Figure 8.3. As you can see, this page shows us the storage group as well
as mailbox database name. Because there aren't many interactions on this page,
simply click Next.
- Now let's specify the path to the LCR files for the respective storage group (see
Figure 8.4). For the purpose of this example, we're simply specifying the E: drive,
which is a second set of disks on the server. When the location has been specified,
we can click Next.
Figure 8.3 Enable storage group Local Continuous Replication. (Click on image for enlarged view.)
Figure 8.4 Specifying the paths for the Replicated Log and System Files. (Click on image for enlarged view.)
- On the Mailbox Database page, we have to specify the path to the location of the
second copy of the database, as shown in Figure 8.5. When you have done so, click
Next.
Figure 8.5 Specifying the path for the Database Copy. (Click on image for enlarged view.)
- We have now reached the step where we enable LCR for the storage group, so
let's do so by clicking Enable and see what happens. As shown in Figure 8.6, the
Local Continuous Replication Wizard completed successfully. Click Finish.
Figure 8.6 The Local Continuous Replication feature was enabled with success. (Click on image for enlarged view.)
If you would rather enable LCR for a storage group via the EMS, you will have to do
so using the Enable-DatabaseCopy and Enable-StorageGroupCopy CMDlets. To enable LCR for the First Storage Group, you would need to first run the following command:
Enable-DatabaseCopy -Identity "EDFS03\First Storage Group\Mailbox Database" -
CopyEDBFilePath:"E:\MailboxLocalCopies\First Storage Group\Mailbox Database.edb"
Then type:
Enable-StorageGroupCopy -Identity "EDFS03\First Storage Group"
-CopyLogFolderPath:"E: \Mailbox\LocalCopies\First Storage Group"
-CopySystemFolderPath:"E: \MailboxLocalCopies\First Storage Group"
| Note: Even though we're dealing with a secondary copy of a production database, it's still a best practice to keep the log files and database separated on their own set of disks. |
Now notice that the copy status for the First Storage Group has changed to Healthy (see
Figure 8.7).
Figure 8.7 The copy status for the storage group Is healthy. (Click on image for enlarged view.)
Managing Local Continuous Replication in Exchange 2007
 Home: Introduction
Part 1: Exchange 2007 Local Continuous Replication overview
Part 2: Enable LCR on an Exchange 2007 storage group
Part 3: Viewing the status for a Local Continuous Replication copy
Part 4: Switching to the LCR copy for database disaster recovery
Part 5: Suspending and resuming LCR for an Exchange 2007 storage group
Part 6: Manually adding an Exchange 2007 database to a storage group copy
Part 7: Use Exchange Eseutil for a passive storage group copy integrity check
Part 8: Disabling LCR on an Exchange 2007 storage group
Part 9: Adding Local Continuous Replication performance objects and counters
Part 10: Exchange 2007 LCR administration summarized
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