Hi,

You do not need to down your production store when restoring said store to
an RSG.. You ideally just need to make sure you have enough space to restore
the database and that your cpu/disk/ram won't be adversely affected.

Follow these steps in this how to article to save yourself the headache of
building another server:

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/...oups-Work.html

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/..._Recovery.html

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb124961.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../aa997784.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824126


Exchange 2003 SP1 let you 'merge' the contents of an RSG mailbox into the
users production mailbox, so you don't even need the hassle of exporting to
PST seeing you're running with SP2.

Oliver