MS Exchange Data Recovery

As email communication becomes more and more important not only to the corporate world, but also to small and mid sized businesses, the use of Microsoft's Exchange Server product has increased markedly.

The features of this particular product are very robust, and enable developers and administrators to not only cull new data from this powerful platform, but to also handle important add-on apps, such as scheduling and CRM programs. But with the increasing use of this has come the need for MS Exchange Data Recovery (and sometimes SQL database recovery, as service we also offer).

MS Exchange Data Recovery Tips

Most administrators understand that MS Exchange data recovery and harddrive recovery can be very simple if the right tools are used. For many companies, an exchange server recovery can be simply done if a backup has been created and stored to various media, which may include data tape, DVD-R or RW or other external media storage.

MS Exchange Server 2003 does offer an important data recovery tool in what is called the Mailbox Recovery Center, which can typically restore corrupted data which may have occurred through regular use or human error.

Using Exmerge.exe
A MS Exchange Server 2003 data recovery is often quite simple because of its tool available to mount storage databases using the Recovery Storage Group feature. Within this group, it is possible to use the Exmerge utility to recover mailboxes to the Recovery Storage Group. This is a truly powerful exchange database recovery toolset, and as of yet we have seen nothing which comes close.

Other tools are available, of varying complexity, from which simple database recoveries can be performed. Some of these techniques can be found at such reference sites as Microsoft.com or MSexchange.org.

When Professional Help Is Required
Not all MS Exchange data recovery can be performed in an OS environment, however. The fact is, backups do not only fail, but backup programs can be not as stringent as necessary. This occurs, obviously, when data that is required does not appear after a "complete" recovery. In cases like this, professional help will likely be required, either to provide recovery software, or to provide advice and help with the drive/database for the MS exchange recovery.

Physical Hard Drive Damage
Physically damaged hard drives, whether through electrical or mechanical failure, flood, fire or physical damage, virtually always requires professional help when MS Exchange data recovery is necessary.

Hard drives, when damaged, can only be accessed and fixed by a specialized company like Hard Drive Recovery Group, which has access to a Clean Room facility. Trying to open a hard drive by yourself will not only void all warranties on that particular piece of hardware, but will also make the possibility of recovering that data extremely difficult..

Do you think you need professional MS Exchange data recovery? (Note: we also offer professional MS SQL recovery)

If so, contact us here for a hard drive recovery quote. Or call us at the toll free number above.