Moving public folder store 2003 with replication

iMacMart · 14 Jan 2013 at 15:15

Gents

The SAN the data is on has become unreliable and we need to move them over to our EMC box, reading online you just repoint and store dismounts, moves and I can then remount, we have replication between two public folder stores is there any hidden gems that anyone knows of?

Many thanks

Mart

ASE001 · 14 Jan 2013 at 15:28

Check that Access-based Enumeration (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772681(v=ws.10).aspx) is not used, if it is used check that it will not be affected by the move.

iaind · 14 Jan 2013 at 15:37

ASE001 said:
Check that Access-based Enumeration (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772681(v=ws.10).aspx) is not used, if it is used check that it will not be affected by the move.

Anyway. Im unclear on where the 2 public folder stores are - if one is on your old SAN an done on the new one, cant you just remove the old one and change the default public folder store for the mailbox stores?

iMacMart · 14 Jan 2013 at 15:59

iaind said:
cant you just remove the old one and change the default public folder store for the mailbox stores?

Sorry I'm not sure I follow what you mean by this? I do have 2 one on the new location and the other on the sick location, I just want to move the second one over, sorry if I missing something your pointing out

iaind · 14 Jan 2013 at 16:17

Are they replicas of the same folders or hosting different folders?

If they're replicas, the data is already on the new location and you just need to remove the old one

Yamahahahahaha · 14 Jan 2013 at 16:18

iMacMart, you need to check the data on the 'good' array is the primary PF source (not assigned as replicas) and commit the logs after dismounting, the rest of the procedure is correct.

When you dismount the PF IS make a duplicate copy of it and run eseutil.exe against it so ensure it's in a consistent state (logs comitted) before copying it over.
Iirc the command is C:\eseutil.exe /mh <path to edb file>

Once it's all committed, it should be ok with moving over. In my experience anything can go wrong with Exchange 2003 IS', hence making a copy of the data after dismounting (so you can remount in the event of a failure). It will give you time to troubleshoot the problems before repeating the procedure.

iMacMart · 14 Jan 2013 at 16:19

iaind said:
Are they replicas of the same folders or hosting different folders?

If they're replicas, the data is already on the new location and you just need to remove the old one

Move not remove? Or point to the new SAN location

Replication was setup for redundancy

iaind · 14 Jan 2013 at 16:26

iMacMart said:
Move not remove? Or point to the new SAN location

Replication was setup for redundancy

If its a replica, the data is already at the other location. So the old one just needs to be removed, surely?

You just change the public folder store property against the mailbox stores to the correct location and remove the old one (after removing the replica references against the folders). Unless I'm missing something about how its set up..