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How To Recover Exchange Database

There are a number of potential scenarios that make your MS Exchange Server database (.EDB) file corrupt and leave all your vital mail data inaccessible. In the occurrence of any adverse scenario, leading to the corruption of your MS Exchange EDB database, you are not able to access any of the mailboxes and its items. Mentioned below are some of the prominent causes of MS Exchange server database corruption.


Major Scenarios Leading to MS Exchange Server Database Corruption:

 

  • Due to OST file corruption, a user mailbox becomes inaccessible or unavailable. In such cases, you should use a Recovery Storage Group (RSG) to mount the mailbox database, extract its content, and then restore the content to a folder in the mailbox or merge the content with the mailbox. MS Exchange Server 2003 and earlier versions use the Mailbox Merge Wizard (ExMerge) tool for extracting data. From MS Exchange Server 2007 version, this task is accomplished through the Exchange Management Shell Restore-Mailbox cmdlet, or the Exchange Disaster Recovery Analyzer (ExDRA) tool.
  • The Information Store may crash because of dirty Exchange Server shutdown. As a consequence, you would lose access to all the mailboxes in the EDB file. At this stage, use an updated backup to restore the Information Store and then resynchronize it through the transaction logs.
  • There could be crashes or bad sectors on your hard disk. Due to this, the transaction log files stored on the affected area of the disk become unreadable. As a result, incorrect updates occur, which cause problems while mounting the EDB file.
  • A virus or other malicious program may damage the EDB file header. When the header gets corrupt, the EDB file cannot be opened to access important mailbox items.

 

In all the above mentioned scenarios of EDB file corruption, it is not always possible to restore the Exchange server back to its normal working. Sometimes the exact cause of EDB damage is not known and the standard resolutions do not help. In such cases, Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery can effectively perform a complete and reliable Exchange database recovery. The comprehensive utility incorporates a variety of advanced mechanisms to safely repair corrupt Exchange databases and restore precious user mailboxes as separate PST files.

 

How to Recover Damaged/Corrupt Exchange Database with Stellar Exchange Recovery?

 

You need to follow the series of steps given below to repair the corrupt EDB file using this Exchange database recovery software.

 

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EDB Repair

 

Step 1:- Main Interface of Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery In the 'Select EDB File' dialog box, click 'Open EDB File' for selecting the EDB file to be repaired. Click 'Find EDB File' to search for EDB files in any specific drive or volume in your system.

 

EDB Repair

 

Step 2:- After you select the EDB file, choose the MS Exchange Server version from the 'Select Server Type' section and click 'Start' to begin the scanning process.

 

EDB Repair

 

Step 3:- When you click 'Start', the 'Select Scan Mode' dialog box will be displayed. Here, you have the option to perform either 'Quick Scan' or 'Extensive Scan'. 'Quick Scan' is relatively faster than 'Extensive Scan', whereas ‘Extensive Scan’ is extremely useful in situations when the EDB file is severely corrupt. After selecting the desired option, click 'OK'.

 

EDB Repair

 

Step 4:- The progress bar at the bottom displays the execution phases of the scanning process.

 

EDB Repair

 

Step 5:- When the scan is completed, the software lists all recoverable items in the left pane. When you click a mailbox folder, all items present in that folder will appear in the top-right pane. You can click any item in the list to see its preview.

 

EDB Repair

 

Step 6:- Select the user mailboxes from the left pane that you need to recover and click 'Save Mailboxes' icon on the tool bar. Provide a destination path for saving the recovered mailboxes and click ‘OK’.

 

EDB Repair

 

Step 7:- All the recovered mailboxes will be saved at the specified location. The progress bar in the dialog box indicates the saving process.

 

Using Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery, you can recover the following mailbox items:

 

  • Emails
  • Contacts
  • Attachments
  • Tasks
  • Calendars
  • Journals
  • Notes
  • Appointments and More…

 

 

 

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