Corruption Errors While Backing Up Exchange Server Database

2008-10-22 Word Count: 327 Category: Data Recovery

Sometimes when you try to backup the Exchange Server private storage group, the backup might fail. Here you may see the following entries in the Application Event Log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: ESE
Event Category: Logging/Recovery
Event ID: 217
Date: 14/09/2005
Time: 2:16:59 PM
User: N/A
Computer: CALEXNODE01
Description:
Information Store (3280) SG2 - Edmonton: Error (-4001) during backup of a database (file K:\EXCHSRVR\SG2\SG2-Store4.edb). The database will be unable to restore.
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Most of the technical experts and database administrators assume that this error message occurs due to inconsistency problem in database and they suggest you to check database integrity.

But in this case, when you run “Eseutil /g” for checking the database integrity, you may receive further error message:

”Integrity check completed.
Database is CORRUPTED, the last full backup of this database was on 09/13/2005 23:23:16”

After these error messages, the database becomes inaccessible and the catastrophic situations of data loss arise.

Cause

As the second error message states, this problem is due to corruption in the Exchange Server database. The corruption could be the result of several factors including virus attack, improper system shutdown, application malfunction and the similar.

At this stage of time, it is extremely important to repair and restore the database. The database repair is possible through Exchange Server recovery software. Exchange Server recovery software performs EDB recovery in every case of corruption and retrieves all of your lost data.

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