.edb repair

Exchange server is a widely used application among the people for various purposes such as sending or receiving emails. Exchange server database gets corrupted due to various reasons like virus infection, abrupt applications, physical damage to the storage media, dirty system shutdown etc. In case your edb file gets corrupted you will face difficulties in accessing user emails, items etc. You may also come across different types of error messages including Exchange server Error 1019.

Microsoft has provided an inbuilt tool known as -esutil/p for overcoming all types of Exchange server corruption. This inbuilt application offers two types of recovery mode namely soft recovery and hard recovery. In soft recovery database remains as a offline backup and transaction logs are replayed. Whereas in hard recovery, online backup is used and transaction log is replayed. Let us consider a practical scenario in which you encounter error -1019 on your computer screen while performing hard recovery of your Exchange server.

With the occurrence of Exchange server Error 1019 on your computer you will get the following event ids:

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

How to fix Exchange server Error 1019

With the occurrence of Exchange server Error 1019 and aforesaid event-ids, the edb database is severely damaged and it is difficult to repair the edb files by using hard recovery method. This error message also tells that even online backup method can't help you in doing edb repair since it is also damaged with the original database and as such restoration process can't be completed. After this, the exchange repair process will be terminated. Besides, the last replayed transaction log file also gets damaged.

In such cases of severe corruption, it is still possible to repair the edb files and correct all mailboxes, but for this you will have to go for third-party edb repair tool. These third-party Corrupted EDB repair applications are highly advanced and employs effective techniques to repair edb files which even the -esutil/p tool can't repair.