I have a DAG with 2 member servers (PRIM-EXCH and ALT-EXCH). PRIM-EXCH is the primary server. ALT-EXCH is a standby server (which will be activated in the event PRIM-EXCH goes down.) I have 7 static journal databases I need to copy over to ALT-EXCH. I am not using AutoReseed. So when I use EAC to create a copy of a journal database, database is copied over successfully but I get the error message: The seeding operation failed. Error: An error occurred while running prerequisite checks. Error: The specified database isn't configured for replication and therefore cannot be used to perform seed operations.
Microsoft articles I’ve come across for the error suggest its an error I can ignore but that I need to use Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy cmdlet to seed the newly copied database.
Is it better to take the time and setup AutoReseed? Or is seeding a database manually (via update-MailboxDatabaseCopy) just as good? The journal databases get pretty big…500GB to 750GB.
Please be aware, once the static Journal databases are copied over, they will be dismounted. (They are only mounted when staff needs to search for emails (i.e. audits, compliancy checks).
I also will need to make a copy of the live User Mailbox Database and current active journal.
Please advise.
Thank you,