How To Do Exchange Server Recovery After The 1019 Error Message

Exchange Server provides an inbuilt utility (Eseutil) to fix the database corruption problems. But sometimes when you perform hard recovery, it may not complete and you need to carry out EDB recovery to sort out the problem.

While performing hard database recovery, you may encounter -1019 error messages. The error message shows that EDB file is severely corrupted and it can not be repaired. After these errors, the recovery process gets halted and last transaction log file which is replayed, gets modified and damaged.
In this case, when you see the Application Event Log of Exchange Server, you may find the underwritten events:

Event ID: 0
Source: ESE97
Type: Error
Category: Performance
Description: (252) Unexpected Win32 error: 0x3E6

Event ID: 122
Source: ESE97
Type: Error
Category: Logging/Recovery
Description: (252) Unable to read the log. Error -1022.

Event Id: 0
Source: ESE97
Type: Error
Category: Logging/Recovery
Description: (252) -1019

After these error messages, your important data in the Exchange Server becomes inaccessible and you have to figure out the cause of this issue and use EDB repair solutions to reclaim the lost data.

Grounds of this issue

You may encounter these error messages due to EDB file corruption. Such corruption could be the possible result of improper server shutdown, file header corruption, application malfunction, virus infection and other similar reasons.

In all these situations, your data becomes inaccessible and unusable, thus you need to sort out this problem to reclaim your inaccessible data.
How to fix this problem

You can overcome the corruption scenarios by repairing the corrupted EDB file using EDB recovery software. These are third party applications that are uniquely designed to thoroughly scan the corrupted EDB file and extract inaccessible and lost data from it.

These software come equipped with interactive user interface and does not demand sound technical knowledge to achieve efficient repair and restoration of data. They are able to recover all EDB objects including e-mails, notes, contacts, journals, calendar entries and tasks.

With read-only design, these software carry out safe and original EDB repair in almost all the EDB corruption scenarios. To ensure safe, quick and effective recovery, you should opt for result-oriented and time-tested exchange recovery software.

Stellar Phoenix mailbox exchange recovery is the most reliable EDB recovery application for all software caused Exchange Server corruption. The software supports Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, 2000 and 5.5. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows XP, 2003 and 2000.

By: k madhav

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K madhav is a data recovery expert and doing research on data recovery and hard drive recovery.