Setting Up Local Continuous Replication in Exchange 2007

Executive Summary:

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 provides several built-in features to provide a disaster recovery capability for your Exchange server. One such feature, Local Continuous Replication (LCR), provides for a secondary, passive copy of your mail database on a separate disk. In the event of a disk failure or corrupted mail database on the active disk, you can manually fail over to the passive copy of the database. You can configure LCR on Exchange Server 2007 either via the Exchange Management Console GUI or by using Windows PowerShell commands in Exchange Management Shell.

Imagine yourself driving down a winding road. Suddenly you notice your brakes aren’t functioning. You start to panic but remember the emergency brake. This example vividly shows how redundancies in systems are lifesavers. Having more than one point of recovery is essential, especially when you’re dealing with machines. . . .