Dealing with Exchange Backup File Corruption Using Third Party Tool

The backup file of MS Exchange Server holds the data of .edb, .stm and .log files. If you have been using Exchange Server for quite a long time now, you may have experienced backup files corruption several times due to a number of reasons. The potential causes behind this corruption may vary from power surges, spikes to header damage, human error, operating system bugs, hardware issues, etc. Sometimes, the corruption is hidden in the Exchange backup file and is not known until you try to restore it. You can view the Logs after a successful or unsuccessful process of backup restore in MS Exchange Server.

Exchange store database is checked every time when you perform online backup. If there is a mismatch checksum, backup will not be completed and an error message is appeared on the screen. However, this type of corruption is detected only at file level. If the corruption is at page level, you cannot identify it during backup but it creates problem at the time of restoration.

Why backup is required:

Backing up data on regular basis is necessary that helps in following situations:

• To regain all lost user mailbox items.
• To recollect all attachments, emails, contact details, to-do list etc.
• To recover accidently deleted and permanently lost mailbox
• To handle corruption issues
• To fight against every possible Exchange server failure or disaster.

No doubt, backup file is one of the most important files for the Exchange server administrators as well as users. Generally, NTBackup utility is used for backing up and restoring the data in MS Exchange Server. But, due to the corruption at page level, this backup tool fails to restore the backup file. In this situation, you need to repair the damaged Exchange backup file before restoring to Server. There are many third party tools available on the web which allows the users to effectively fix the problematic backup file.

Stellar Phoenix Exchange BKF Recovery is one such popular third party application to repair corrupt Exchange backup file. It is a professional tool that safely repairs damaged Exchange bkf files and recovers all crucial data. Furthermore, the competent Exchange BKF repair tool is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, 2000.