The Disaster Recovery tools have been designed to allow you to restore your Unity backup onto a server in most scenarios that will come up in the field.  For systems installed with Exchange, these are tested scenarios:

• Restore a Unity backup to a server with a different name.  All references to the old server name will be replaced in the database and registry such that this will go smoothly
• Restore a Unity backup to a server in a different domain.  All references that include the old domain path will be fixed up during the restore.  
• Restore a Unity backup on a system configured with a different back end connection so long as it’s Exchange based.  Specifically you can backup a system running with Exchange 5.5 on box and restore the backup information onto a clean install of the same version of Unity that’s connected to Exchange 2000/2003/2007 server off box.  Any combination of 55/2K/2003/2007 and on/off box should work fine.  The disaster recovery tools will make the changes in the database and registry to make this transition work.  You cannot, however, migrate between Exchange back ends and Domino back ends or vice versa. See Restoring to an Exchange 2007 Based System section for details specific to restores with Exchange 2007.
• Restore a Unity backup on a system that has Unity installed on a different drive and/or folder name.  If the system you backed up was installed to c:\CommServer and the new system you restore to is installed on E:\Unity, the restore process will fix up all references necessary to make this work.

 

For systems installed with Domino, only backing up and restoring to the same Domino configuration is supported.  Changing domains/orgs, address book configurations or the like is not supported.  Changes in the Unity install drive selection or the server name itself still work fine.  When used with Domino, DiRT is not designed to handle "migration" scenarios as it is with AD/Exchange configurations.  

 

Before restoring, please review the Restore prep and troubleshooting section for test procedures to complete BEFORE doing the restore.