How to do a disaster recovery of Exchange 2003 for testing purposes

[protocol]

Hey guys. I have a question. Can someone please help in finding out
how to perform a test restore of my exchange 2003 to a test machine
without affecting my production environment. I would like overall
suggestions and possibly how to test my backups. Essentially I just
need to restore to a separate system(s)... and subsequently just open
OWA and login. If the data is there and it is usable, I have
accomplished everything. I have widnows 2008 Domain Controller, and
Exchange 2003 Enterprise edition (in a cluster). While making
recommendations, please just keep in mind, the quicker the better and
I am not trying to keep the same structure... If you guys can suggest
restoring DCs and Exchange to 1 box, please just suggest how to set it
up.

Thanks a bunch for your help and Cheers!!!

Chuy

[iann]

If you are trying to recover a production system for testing, it is
best to setup a qa/dev environment for this. You can't restore a
production system for test purposes once it's in production without
affecting it. How is your environment setup? Is the frontend and
backend on the same box? Also, you shouldn't be combing DC's and
Exchange on the same box no matter what except if you are using SBS.
Testing restoring of the databases is fine but to test the OWA and
login, you need a separate environment for that or use a test account
with a test database.

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