Exchange Server database corruption is a very common scenario and could occur to any user at any point of time. After corruption, entire database becomes completely inaccessible and you may lose a vast amount of your business critical mails, contacts, important meeting schedules and a lot of other information.
To overcome corruption troubles, Microsoft has provided a database repair utility with Exchange Server, known as Eseutil.exe. This utility has several options to tackle different corruption scenarios in different ways. Broadly these options are categorized as Soft Recovery and Hard Recovery.
Though, it is worth to perform Exchange Server recovery using inbuilt utility, but sometimes while performing hard recovery, you may come across with the -1019 error messages. These error messages write the following entries in Application
Event ID: 122
Source: ESE97
Type: Error
Category: Logging/Recovery
Description: (252) Unable to read the log. Error -1022.
After these error messages, EDB recovery process ends and the last transaction log, which is replayed, is modified and corrupted.
Cause
The error messages indicates that the Exchange Server database is severely damaged and could not be restored using Eseutil.exe.
In such crucial situations, you need to use third party Exchange Server repair software to retrieve your inaccessible data from EDB file. These software are known as EDB recovery software.
EDB recovery software perform well in all possible cases of corruption and carry out EDB repair in an easy and quick way. Exchange Server repair software are made available by a number of data recovery companies, but you should always go for the best one available in the market.
Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery software is the most influential and the best ever made Exchange Server recovery software. This software has outstanding power of thoroughly scanning the entire EDB file and achieving efficient Exchange Server repair.
This EDB recovery software is very easy to use and thus allows you to have easy and effective EDB repair in most cases of corruption. You can do EDB recovery for all objects of EDB file including emails, notes, contacts, calendar entries and many alike.
