EDB Corruption Due To Missing Log Files

When you attempt to mount Exchange Server storage group, you may come across with an error message, which might be similar to the following one:



Event Type: Error
Event Source: ESE98
Event Category: Logging/Recovery
Event ID: 0
Date: 4/16/2001
Time: 7:53:27 PM
User: N/A
Computer: EXCHANGE1


Description: Information Store (3128) Database recovery on 'D:exchsrvrMDBDATAPRIV4.edb' failed with error -1216. The database is not in the state expected at the first reference of this database in the log files. It is likely that a file copy of this database was restored, but not all log files since the file copy was made are currently available. Please contact PSS for further assistance.



After this error message, the storage group becomes inaccessible and you can not retrieve even a single bit of data from it.



Grounds of the trouble



This error message generally occurs if you are missing the log files at the beginning of the required range. It indicates that you won´t be able to rerun any log data at all into referenced database.



You could rerun log data for a specific database if the last reliable log is present there, and then only if there is a continuous stream of logs pass this "anchor" log.Such problems indicate the database corruption, which requires repairing of the same. In such situations, even Eseutil can not repair the database as there is no valid checkpoint file.



In these circumstances, you need for a tool which can performEDB recovery without taking any regard from the database log files. Such tools are known as Exchange Server recovery software.

Exchange Server recovery software are easy to use applications which can do EDB repair in almost all of the situations of EDB corruption. These softwares generally do not require any prior and high technical knowledge to carry out Exchange Server repair.



Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the most advanced and the highly influential EDB recovery software which allows you to carry out effective Exchange Server repair in each and every case of corruption. This software can perform Exchange Server recovery for all the EDB objects including emails, notes, contacts, calendar entries, and many alike. This software is powerful enough to carry out EDB recovery for all file versions of Exchange Server.