Microsoft Exchange 2007 SCR

[ChadPC]

Hi

I am wondering if anyone could help me or have knowledge on the issue we are having, recently a colleague and i setup our second exchange server and we are trying to get SCR to work. We were able to get the database to copy over but we having trouble to get the logs to replicate. the first command we ran is

1. Enable-StorageGroupCopy -Identity Test -StandbyMachine <Server2> -ReplayLagTime 0.0:3:0 -TruncationLagTime 0.0:5:0

This ran successfully, then we ran the command:

2. Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus

This shows that the database and logs copy failed but the replication service has started successfully

3. Suspend-StorageGroupCopy -Identity Test -StandbyMachine <Server2>

This suspend the replication service on the active node

4. Update-StorageGroupCopy -Identity Server1\Test Storage Group -StandbyMachine <Server2>(WE RAN THIS COMMAND ON THE PASSIVE NODE)

The replication service starts again and it copy's over the database


5. Resume-StorageGroupCopy -Identity Test -StandbyMachine <Server2>

this service starts successfully

6. Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus -Server <Server1> -StandbyMachine <Server2>

This shows that the replications of the logs failed. this does not show us why it fails

We researched why it failed and this is the error that it displayed:

Standby Continuous Replication for storage group 'Server1\Test' is in a 'Failed' state on server 'Server2'. The error message is: The directory
\\Server1\7da6be71-97ec-4101-89c6-af20088f792d$ required by the
Microsoft Exchange Replication Service
for Server1\Test does not exist. Check the file system and its permissions

We found that we had to give Server2(Passive Node) permission on the database folder we are trying to replicated from Server1(Active Node), once we did this we ran the command:

Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus -Server <Server1> -StandbyMachine <Server2>

This reflected a healthy states for about 30 seconds and when running the command again we got a failed response

Please help with info or links to pages that could help us

Thanks

 

[Tim the Techxpert]

Hi There,
Exchange is not up my street at all. however I did a bit of digging for you (and to educate me a bit)
This site seems to take you through step by step what needs to be done. It might be worthwhile going through and ticking off that you did each item in the correct sequence.
This Blog Post might also help as there may be some other posts about SCR to guide you.
Have you asked Microsoft support either through the web or telephonically?

Regards

Tim