SBS 2008 Mail Database missing after recovery. What to do?

SBS 2008 went into the rebooting loop.... I've tried all I can to resolve it and had no luck. The last option was to recover which I did successfully except the mailbox database.
After restoring the Server I looked at the DB and they were dismounted when I tried to mount them I got an error saying Can't find database Exchange can create a new one....
I can access the old server in safe mode. Can I just take the db file and move it and mount it on the new recovered server? Or it's not as easy as move the DB and mount it?
Thanks for the help.
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Dear user13148231,
You can check the SCN of the database but i think if the area that you store archivelogs for the standby database is full and the replication was stopped, you have lost the synchronization.
Compare the SCN of the both databases and see if the standby database is up-to-date or not. If it is not, you have to take an incremental backup up to that SCN from the primary database and apply it to the standby database. The archivelog gap will be closed and the sync will continue to move on.
Once the database can not have the archivelogs on the system, it can not apply them. However, if you still have the missed archivelogs on the primary database you may register them manually and the gap would be closed again.
Please see the Oracle data dictionary views to have the necessary information.
Ogan

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