Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) for Exchange 2007 SP1
Have I said how much I love the Exchange team lately? These guys/gals are awesome!
So, today, I see the blog about SP1 for Exchange Server 2007 and just had to read it. There is some really nice stuff coming out as part of SP1 that you will probably want to read for yourself on the Exchange team blog. However, let me make it clear: just because it is part of the plan at this time does not mean it will ever be implemented. Plans change.
The one planned feature of SP1 that really jumped out at me is SCR. I had a wow moment.
Basically, instead of using LCR to replicate the database to a local hard drive in the Exchange Server 2007 server, SCR let's the copy of the storage group take place on a remote Exchange Server 2007 server. In the event the production server fails, then the copy generated by SCR can be mounted and run.
Questions of mine regarding SCR include:
- Is this just a matter of mounting the store on the remote Exchange server using the database portability capability in 2007?
- Will the transport dumpster be used to make sure that the SCR copy can be brought as current as possible to prevent data loss?
- Is this enough to bring the masses to Exchange Server 2007?
Personally, I think this is HUGE! Remote site recovery is something every large business wants for its critical data such as email.
