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1. Quick Method How to
Perform Recovery of Corrupt Exchange
Backup File

2. Know About
• What is Exchange Backup File
• Why Backup is Required
• Methods of Exchange Server Backup
• Inbuilt Utility for Taking Exchange BKF
• Software for Backup Recovery

3. Exchange Backup File
Exchange Backup files contains three most
important database files:-
EDB:-stores user's mailboxes
STM:-store streamed native Internet
content
LOG:-keeps transaction record

4. Why Backup is Required
 For handling corruption or data loss
situations effectively
 Helpful in recovering suddenly deleted
important files and folders
 Can rescue your data from unpredictable
failures such as power, virus, I/o errors
 Can help in disaster database recovery
 Accidently deleted user mailbox

5. Types of Backup
Backup
Online Offline
Normal
(Full)
Copy
Incremental
Diffrential

6. Methods of Exchange Server Backup
Following are two methods which can be
used to take backup of Exchange Server
Data:
Online Backup
Offline Backup

7. Online Backup
In this backup method backups of Exchange databases files are done
while Exchange services are running means no need to stop or shut
down Exchange server for taking backup.
An online backup can be performed in following ways:
 A Normal Backup is process to backs up the directory or Exchange
store in its entirety, as well as the log files.
 A Copy Backup is used to get a full backup of the directory or
Exchange store without disturbing the state of on going incremental
or differential backups.
 An Incremental Backup backs up only the log files, and then purges
them, means backs up the subset of the component that has
changed since the last normal or incremental backup.
 A Differential Backup backs up changes in the directory or
Exchange store that have occurred since the last normal backup.

8. Offline Backup
In this backup method backups of Exchange
files and folders are taken when Exchange
services are not running, means server is
shutdown. If services are not running,
backup software can easily access to
database files and can back them up.

9. Inbuilt Utility For Backup
 NTBackup is a windows inbuilt utility that is basically used
in backing up data for MS Exchange Server 2000/2003.
 Windows Server Backup (WSBExchange.exe), an built-in
utility in Windows 7 and later versions of Windows
operating systems, is used for MS Exchange 2007/2010
Servers.
 Except these inbuilt tools, there are some third party
backup applications which can be used to backup data of
Exchange Server.

10. Limitations of Inbuilt Utilities
 NT Backup utility is not so much supportive for the heavy
corruption in database
 NT Backup utility is not applicable in hidden files and
directories that are restricted from general user, Ex:-
Home Directory
 NT Backup cannot be used to back up registries on
remote computers.
 NT Backup has no scheduling capabilities of its own. It
need an outside scheduler
 WSBExchange.exe or Windows Server Backup tool
makes VSS based backup only
 Only supports to full backup, you can restore single
information storage group but can not single database

11. How to Recover Exchange BKF
Several times due to major corruption in .bkf file, restoration of the
essential data is not possible using the built-in tools. For solving such
major problems there are some commercial application available for
backing up data. Stellar Phoenix Exchange BKF Recovery utility is
one of them. Some silent features of the product are:
 Facilitates option to find BKF files in the system when user don't know
the exact location of backup file.
 Provides complete recovery of heavily damaged backup file in simple
three steps.
 Single or multiple database recovery from highly corrupted backup
file.
 There is no cost for trial version of the tool
 Easily retrieves EDB, STM and LOG files.
 Option to save scanned data for performing recovery later.

12. For trial version of Stellar Phoenix
Exchange BKF Recovery
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