Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 database corruption roots generally from underlying hard disk subsystem. There are fairly good chances that a database might get corrupt if an I/O issue exists on Exchange Server 2007 installed disk set. However, database size issues are no more a major problem in Exchange 2007, as it is now 16 TB per database. But general problems like log file corruption, third-party interaction etc. can still set up database corruption problems.
An Exchange Server 2007 database can prompt different errors while corruption, like:
- "An internal processing error has occurred. Try restarting the Exchange System Manager or the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service."
- "-1811, JET_errFileNotFound."
To determine database corruption issues, you should keep on checking Application and System logs for the related events. The primary choice of Exchange Server 2007 Recovery is restoring from a suitable backup. But there can be situations when a proper backup is either not available or corrupt itself. In such conditions, you should try repairing the database using Exchange 2007 Extensible Storage Engine Utilities. You can run Eseutil /R for soft database recovery and/or Eseutil /P for hard database recovery, while making sure that you backup the database first. For example, to repair the database named as Mailbox Database.edb, you can run command as:
Eseutil /P "E:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Mailbox\First Storage Group\Mailbox Database.edb"
If the standard database repair methods fail, you need alternatives like using a third-party Exchange Server Recovery tool.
Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery v3.0 is a reliable utility that natively supports repairing Exchange Server 2007 databases. It also supports MS Exchange Server 2003, 2000, and 5.5. The software repairs the corrupted Exchange database and restores mailboxes in distinct *.pst files.
To perform Exchange Server 2007 Recovery, you need to follow these steps:
Locate EDB File:
'Selecting' or 'Finding' the corrupt EDB database file.
Start Scanning :
Corrupt EDB database file selected, Select the 'Server Type' and Click 'Start' to initiate Scanning
After Scanning :
Preview of the Recoverable EDB database file contents after scanning
