I have Exchange Server 2013 working in good condition, if my Active directory hardware failure, how can up my Exchange server 2013.

Thanks for your early response.

Hoping to get an answer as to whether or not this is possible…I have Exchange 2013 .edb and its log files that are in clean shutdown state. I have to recover it to a new domain and new server.
Built a new domain, setup new exchange and am trying to mount this .edb to no avail. It seems obvious that it cannot mount as the AD holds no GID of the original DB (at least according to event logs).
Error I am getting while trying to mount it is:
Failed to mount database “MailboxDatabase”. Error: An Active Manager operation failed. Error: The database action
failed. Error: Operation failed with message: MapiExceptionCallFailed: Unable to mount database. (hr=0x80004005,
ec=1105)

Is it even possible to restore without having original AD restored? I built AD, server, ORG using same naming but IDs in AD will obviously be different.

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

Did you ever get a solution for this.
I am also using dell EMC avamar to restore my database but it is failing with the same error.
Just to let you know that the avamar plug-in which i am using to for restore creates recovery db automatically when the restore is initiated but still fails with this error.

Thanks!

How can you tell if one of your current databases is a recovery database? Exchange 2013.

I am trying to create a RecoveryDB, but I have the following error:

Active Directory operation failed on DC02. This error is not retriable. Additional information: The
attribute syntax specified to the directory service is invalid.
Active directory response: 0000200B: AtrErr: DSID-031519E0, #1:
0: 0000200B: DSID-031519E0, problem 1002 (INVALID_ATT_SYNTAX), data 0, Att 200f4 (homeMDB):len 144
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [New-MailboxDatabase], ADOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=Exchange,RequestId=a00d73b3-0556-466c-8036-21c95921720f,TimeStamp=8/15/2019 2:5
9:48 PM] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-ADOperationException] 99F29051,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationT
asks.NewMailboxDatabase
+ PSComputerName : Exchange

I am testing my backups to see if I can restore mailboxes but I found the problem above, I would like to fix it to avoid to have issues in a real needs of recovery process.

Looks like the answer is ‘No’ for a 2013 DB in a 2016 RDB but ‘Yes’ for a 2016 DB in a 2019 RDB’

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/high-availability/disaster-recovery/recovery-databases?view=exchserver-2016

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/high-availability/disaster-recovery/recovery-databases?view=exchserver-2019

Looks like I have answered my own question. Helps to read the Documentation.

Does “No, recovery databases can only be used on the same version as the server they come from.” apply to 2013 DB on a 2016 server since they are both version 15?

Based on the build numbers , Exchange 2016 could be considered 2013 sp1 😉

Nick

On trying to mount the database i get this error message “Error: Operation failed with message: MapiExceptionTooManyMountedDatabases: Unable to mount database.”

Trying to force the mount won’t work either. Any ideas?