Inconsistencies in BKF File Cause Corruption

Andrew Watson
Backup is the most important thing to safeguard your data against data loss. For this purpose, NT versions of Microsoft Windows operating system includes a powerful backup tool, known as NTBackup. This utility allows you to backup your sensitive business information on hard drive, external storage media, server or FTP server. It stores data in the Microsoft Backup File (BKF). When data loss situations encountered, you can restore data from BKF file using NTBackup tool. But in some situations, due to inconsistencies in the BKF file, it gets damaged and restoration can not be completed and thus it ruins all of your expectations that you had with your backup. You are required to carry out bkf recovery in such situations for retrieving data from corrupt BKF file.

In a practical scenario, when you attempt to restore data from the BKF file using NTBackup tool, you might encounter the below error message:

"An inconsistency was encountered in the requested backup file"

This is the case when BKF file that is created using NTBackup process, gets damaged. Here you need to find out the cause of corruption and carry out bkf repair by sorting out the problem.

Root of the issue

This problem generally occurs due to corruption to the BKF file. A BKF file might get damaged due to virus infection, file system inconsistencies, CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) errors, application errors, catalog file issues, improper system shutdown and many alike.


If you identify the BKF corruption before data loss, you can manage the situation by recreating backup. But in case if you are experiencing the event of data loss and BKF corruption at the same time, then you need to retrieve data from the BKF file.

To prevent such situations, you are recommended to regularly check the status of your backup file. In order to retrieve data in such situations, you are required to repair and restore damaged BKF file. This is best possible with the help of powerful and advanced third party BKF Recovery software.

These applications are particularly designed to methodically scan the corrupted BKF file and retrieve as much data as possible out of it. These applications come equipped with interactive and self-descriptive user interface and thus do not demand sound and prior technical skills to Repair BKF File. With read only and non destructive design, these applications are completely safe to use and always perform original recovery.

Stellar Phoenix BKF Recovery is the most effective tool to ensure absolute restoration of your valuable data from BKF file. It repairs and restores BKF file that is created using NTBackup tool of Windows 2003, XP and 2000. This software is compatible with Windows Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.
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