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December 2nd, 2008 | 
Author: As all type of data prefer, for their protection and preventing from loss, their backup is necessary. Exchange Server, which is the highly used enterprise solution, also needs protection from being corrupt and online and offline backups offer them the best for it. Though Exchange Server repair solutions are always there to cure the corruption, but the backup is considered safe for unspent restoration. Let’s talk about Exchange server backups in brief.
Online Backup: Being the stable method of Exchange server recovery, the method is preferred for taking database as the whole. But, always remember the fact that none of the backup software which is not Exchange-aware will prove fruitful for the job.
With NTBackup.exe, the task is safe to perform as with the installation of Exchange Server, the setup makes this backup program Exchange-aware. Whereas, if you desire to use some third party software for the same, take care to have extension, else you will be in big loss.
Most of the backups are scheduled, so if the failure happens after few hours of the specified time, the transactions in the interval have the chances to get lost if the transaction logs also get corrupt.
Offline Backup: For Exchange Server like applications, which is quite dynamic in nature, the offline backup solutions are not so worth and even not practical. This has many downsides like database is required to set offline while the backup process is in place and hence it becomes completely inaccessible for the mean time.
These types of backups are preferred when you need to migrate to any other server. Here the restriction of software being Exchange-server is not there as file level backup takes place.
Now, this is not sure that at time of failure, you retain the backup in good state. EDB recovery may not be welcomed through these backups. Moreover, some of the users may have not taken the backups till. So, in any of the case, whether the backup is not fruitful or the backup has not been implied till, EDB repair is the way which can scan and repair the corrupted database.
You can apply Exchange server recovery utilities on the ashes of the database to get the valuable results. These products are quite safe and good for Exchange server repair with the great options.
Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the most effective EDB recovery way through in all the corruption scenarios. This EDB repair application is compatible with Exchange server 5.5, 2000 and 2003 and extracts all the corrupted mailboxes with all the EDB objects in them. This will covert all the repaired mailboxes in PST file format, usable with MS Outlook.
Williamz Jack work as a freelancer and researcher of Data Recovery & File Recovery Software.
Article Source: About Exchange Server Backups
