Most of the business houses depend on MS Exchange server for their communicational requirements. MS Exchange provides a collaborative messaging environment in which employees can share information, either using Outlook on their desktops or Outlook Web Access through a web browser.

With greater dependency on Exchange server comes vulnerability.In the absence of a messaging system, productivity is lowered resulting in a loss of revenue opportunities if the messaging system is business-critical. Even if it is not business-critical, loss of messaging services would create a substantial disruption to the organization.

So you need to plan how to repair or restore .edb files in case of a disaster. For this you need to understand how to correctly back up Exchange database files, how to restore Exchange database files from these backups and how to repair corrupt databases in case no backups are available. The first step in creating a disaster recovery strategy is to consider ways in which you can avoid or minimize the impact of a disaster. You also need to consider what needs to be restored—a single mailbox, a single database, an entire server including all of its databases and logs, or multiple servers in a site.

You can avoid the need to perform a full restore from backup by taking the following steps:

Continuous Replication: Exchange server has asynchronous log shipping technology which can be used to create and maintain a copy of a production storage group on another set of disks, or on another server.

Deleted Item Retention: This allows a single item or entire folders to be restored from the Microsoft Outlook client without the need of administrator intervention.

Deleted Mailbox Retention: This allows for the restoration of deleted mailboxes by using the Exchange Management Console without using backups.

Monitor Servers Proactively: Monitor your servers to solve problems before their condition deteriorate.

Locate Your Users on Multiple Mailbox Databases: By distributing users across a larger number of mailbox databases, you can lesson the impact of the loss of a single database, and allow for quicker restores when a restore is needed.

The steps described above are effective in disaster recovery management but still, if you need to repair .edb file in the event of database crash or corruption, take help of Exchange repair tools available in the market. These tools are effective in repairing .edb files which can then be stored in MS Outlook as .PST files. From these .PST files, an administrator can extract users’ mailboxes, contacts and calendars etc.

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