Extracting Data from Corrupt Exchange Backup Files Using Professional Utilities

Backups are needed to get your business in good standing after a crisis situation. For the same reason, the organizations that run MS Exchange Server are frequently involved in backing up all the data on the server for ensuring high data availability in the event of a disaster like server crash. Exchange backups can be created by Windows NTBackup tool. The backup files carry the extension '.BKF'. These files contain all the '.stm' (Exchange streaming media file), '.edb' (Exchange database), and '.log' files of your Exchange Server database.

Exchange backup files help you maintain continuity in business operations and ensure uninterrupted email communication. Even if you have accidentally deleted a mail from your mailbox, a person with administrator privileges can restore those lost mails using the Exchange BKF file.

However, you can restore data and services in a crisis situation only if your Exchange BKF files are fully consistent. Exchange BKF files may catch corruption as other files and cause the backup restoration process to fail. A number of factors can make your Exchange backup files corrupt, including an interrupted backup process, virus or malware attack, disgraceful system shutdown, bugs in the backup software, hardware malfunction, cyclic redundancy check fail, and missing catalog files. 

You may come across any of the below mentioned errors if your Exchange BKF files are corrupt:

'The fixed media is full. You cannot back up all of the specified data to this disk device. The backup operation will stop'
OR
'The backup file is unusable. You must erase it, or choose another file.'
OR
'The backup file contains unrecognized data and cannot be used.'

Microsoft does not provide a solution to fix corruption in your Exchange BKF files. To work around Exchange BKF corruption, you need to take help of professional Exchange BKF repair tools. These competent software do an in-depth scan of the corrupt Exchange BKF file to safely retrieve all your Exchanged backed up data. With the help of these tools, you can easily regain access to all mailboxes, storage groups, public folders, and other items on the Exchange Server. Further, they support MS Exchange Server 2007 and 2003 versions.