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Learn About Database Portability - Microsoft Exchange Server Tutorial
From the course: Exchange Server 2010: Designing and Implementing
Learn About Database Portability
- Exchange 2010 supports a feature called Database Portability, and this allows you to physically move databases around from one server to another. Now, right now, my mailbox, my administrator mailbox, is in a database called DB2. DB2 is out here, running on MBX2. Now, there might be a scenario where you're not doing backups, or you're not doing high availability, and maybe you have a server die, like MBX2. It crashes. But you still have the data. You could move that data over to, in this instance, MBX1 and just re-home the mailboxes and mount the database on that server. So let's take a look at this process. I've got Outlook open for my administrator mailbox, so this is online, connected to Exchange. Everything's good. But take a look in the shell. Do a get mailbox, administrator ... (keyboard clicking softly) You can see that the database is out on DB2, and if I just run get mailbox against the administrator, you'll see that the server name is referenced as MBX2. This is because DB2…