Try To Recover Exchange Server 2007 Database With Free Disaster Recovery Tools
Exchange Server 2007 is a little complicated to be handle but fortunately there are number of tools that help to troubleshoot, and that too free of cost. Here is a list of few products that could help to diagnose and recover Exchange Server 2007 database.
- Exchange Server Performance Troubleshooting Analyzer Tool (ExTRA):
ExTRA is a set of troubleshooting tools that helps to work around database mounting, performance, and mail flow issues through variety of applications. Here, two of its applications are discussed that could be an aid to recover database in various scenarios.
Database Troubleshooter: This tool helps to examine EDB and LOG files and give an account of issues that could be preventing database recovery. For example: It will help to identify if any log file is damaged or missing.
This application can be accessed from Exchange Management Console (EMC). Once this tool is launched, it will ask to check to verify if its newer version exists. To run it, Name of Exchange Server and its Domain Controller have to be provided. When done with this, select the task that you wish to perform: either verifying DB or LOG files or to examine space of log drive, repair database etc.
Note: By default, Database Troubleshooter will check the log file entries of last two hours and if older entries have to be checked out, the time period has to be defined by the user.
Database Recovery
Management: This tool again can be accessed through EMC toolbox. It gives a platform to perform following tasks:
Check DB and LOG Files: To examine the reason for DB mounting failure on Server. Moreover, it checks out EDB, LOG, and STM file to ensure successful restore.
Verifies Space of LOG Drive: Analyzes dismounted CHK, LOG, and EDB file for individual storage group to examine trouble with log drive space.
Reset LOG Generation Number: In scenarios where the Storage group lacks names for new log files, this takes all log files to a temporary location and again number them.
Repair Database: If there are signs that DB is corrupt, it can be repaired using this option. However, it causes permanent data loss and thus the suggestion is to first try to restore data from backup.
Manage RSG: Recovery Storage Group to restore DB to another Server can be created. Also, it helps to mount, dismount, as well as remove RSG.
DB Overwriting Property: The property to restore database “Database can be overwritten by Restore” can be rest using this option.
- Exchange Server Database Utility (Eseutil)
Eseutil is a command-line utility available under bin-directory that helps to verify, repair, recover, defragment offline database using different switches. The tool operates over ESE database and log files. The best part about the utility is it can be used against public folders as well as mailboxes.
Note: For Exchange 2007, Eseutil can be operated for ESE DB on Hub Transport and Edge Transport.
Before running ESEUTIL, ensure that sufficient space of disk is available. For example: For defragmentation, the disk should be available of 110% free space of the original DB size. Also, the database should be dismounted from Server if it is to be operated against Eseutil.
A Word of Caution: This command-line tool could be a great help to recover Exchange Server 2007 database from inconsistent or corrupt state on the condition that it is controlled properly.
- Information Store Integrity Checker (Isinteg):
Isinteg helps to check logical errors of Information Store and removes them. It fixes errors that prevent Exchange Server from starting or mounting DB to it. However, it is not a tool to be used on regular basis and is basically used in scenarios where database is damaged. It works on schema level of DB and corrects logical structure of database that Eseutil cannot do. Isinteg is run using following switches:
- Exchange EDB Recovery Freeware
If database is corrupt and mounting processes fails, taking help of Exchange Recovery software is a smart idea. This tool is specially designed recovering public and private folder data from EDB file. This tool is available is following features:
- Extract mailboxes and public folders from EDB file
- Export EDB file to PST, MSG, and EML file
- Migrate mailboxes from EDB file to new Server
- Split PST files into small parts by size parameter
To know more about the product as how will it help to recover Exchange Server 2007 database, download free version of this converter tool for EDB file, that will retrieve data from any number of EDB files, allows previewing them and exporting first 25 items from every folder to desired format or Exchange Server. Further, for exporting unlimited data, complete version of the tool can be owned with reasonable investment.
