Hi folks, can anyone help , I am about to impliment this on a production server? Note I will use the echange aware backup in the future, but for right now , can I try these out? 1)if i use external usb as lcr location, will it break anything how does this impact my server negatively? 2)if i have my lcr data on a usb, something goes wrong on my live database, can i create a folder in the c:\program files\microsoft\exchange server\mailbox\1st storage grp directory, copy the lcr data into it, then mount to make it live? 3)can I dismount , copy .edb file , paste into an external drive directory, and mount on the same server(exchange) in the future for recovery purpose  

Hi Question 1: It will work. But it is not best choice. Microsoft recommends that your secondary disk have a similar capacity and equal performance to the active copy, to ensure that the secondary disk functions similarly to the disk housing the active database. As my experience, local disk I/O performance is better than external USB I/O performance. So copy process will last a long time. Question 2: I never test it. You enable LCR.You should Select the path for the LCR system files and replication logs. Restore Database from LCR Copy command: Restore-StorageGroupCopy -Identity:<Server>\<StorageGroupName>. You cant modify path. So it wont work. Question 3: That is ok. TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tnmff@microsoft.comTerence Yu TechNet Community Support

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