In Microsoft Exchange Server, you can perform hard recovery to retrieve missing or inaccessible data. Such recovery is performed after restoration from online backup, in case of serious database corruption. Hard recovery is the process of replaying a log file, which is similar to the soft recovery. In some cases, the hard recovery can not be completed successfully and the database remains inaccessible and unusable. At this point, you need to go for Exchange Server Recovery to get your mission critical and precious data back.

In a practical scenario, when you attempt to carry out the hard recovery of Microsoft Exchange Server, you might come across -1019 error message. After this error message, you may find the following Event IDs in Application Event Log of Microsoft Exchange Server:

Event ID: 0 Source: ESE97 Type: Error Category: Performance Description: (252) Unexpected Win32 error: 0×3E6

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

Such errors and events do not let your completely the recovery process and all of your critical emails, tasks, calendar entries, journal, notes and personal folders become inaccessible. In such cases, you need to find out the cause of this issue and perform Exchange Server Recovery by sorting it out.

Grounds of the issue

These Event IDs and error messages indicate that the database is severely damaged and it can not be restored using hard recovery. After this behavior of Microsoft Exchange Server, the Exchange Server Repair process gets terminated and last transaction log file, which is replayed, is altered and damaged.

How to handle the Exchange Server database corruption? In order to resolve this issue, you need to first repair and restore the damaged Exchange Server Database (EDB) file. This is best possible with the help of powerful and advanced third party Exchange Server Repair software. These software are particularly designed to effectively scan the damaged EDB file and retrieve all of its objects. These software come equipped with self-descriptive and interactive graphical user interface that let you carry out easy and quick recovery. With read only and non destructive design, these software are completely safe to use and always perform original recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the most excellent solution to handle most of the EDB corruption situations. It works well with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, 2000 and 5.5. This software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 2003, XP and 2000.