Recovering from Database Corruption

If an Exchange database is corrupt, it is not extremely effective to restore the corrupt database to a production server. The server might continue to operate, but database corruption never goes away on its own, and you eventually will have to repair the database. In fact, when minor database corruption is not repaired, the corruption can get to the point that entire sections of the Exchange database become inaccessible.

A couple methods can be used to repair a corrupt Exchange database, or at least restore the database and extract good information from the database. Key to the successful recovery of as much information as possible is using the right tool. In many cases, administrators jump right into using ...

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