Things to Remember in the Recovery of Exchange Server 2007

Exchange Server is now used in many big organizations. Where people use messaging services it is used for business communication. Unavailability of this service may cause lower productivity and as a result business and revenue opportunities can be lost. Since mailbox data is not only important for business communication but also required for employees as well, or any corruption in this can create a substantial disruption to your organization.

When this type of problem takes place then all of the redundancy, security and fault tolerance will not be able to help you because it comes to a damaged, corrupt, or lost database. But if you have an updated backup then you can think about recovery of the database.

 When you plan for recovery of Exchange Server 2007 you must keep some points in your mind so that they may help you in recovering data in a much hassle free manner, such as:- how to correctly back up Exchange 2007, how to restore Exchange 2007, and how to repair corrupt databases when no backups are available.

This type of recovery is a difficult process that needs many decisions and planning for Exchange Server 2007.

Following are the points that you must know before attempting to recover database:-

·      You must know what you have to recover and from where

·      You must follow all your service level agreement requirements.

·      You must understand the importance of deploying Exchange 2007

·      You must know how Exchange Server relies on the Active Directory Services

·      You must know how to use Exchange database technology

You can use try these default commands for recovery process:-

ESEUTIL Utility: - ESEUTIL checks database integrity and repairs damaged database.

You can use following more commands to recover database on individual level:-

1)                  ESEUTIL/d:-checks offline compaction of the database.

2)                  ESEUTIL/r:-helps in recovering database.

3)                  ESEUTIL/g:-easily verifies the integrity of the database.

4)                  ESEUTIL/p:-repairs corrupted database.

5)                  ESEUTIL/c:-assist in restoring information.

6)                  ESEUTIL/y:-copies database streaming file or log file.

ISINTEG Utility: - This utility identifies database as ESE database and verify that database tables, records and indexes. 

If this command doesn’t prove helpful then you can try Stellar Phoenix Exchange Server Recovery Software. This tool is famous for Exchange EDB recovery and can be used for any version of Exchange Server.