Limitations of eseutil /p in Repairing Exchange Database

The MS Exchange Server database corruption canat about 4 to 6 GB per hour and thus eats much
be result of the range of the reasons. But handlingvaluable time and for the ISInteg, speed is 3 to 6
each of the situations is mandatory. For the EDBGB per hour.
recovery, Microsoft has availed the users an inbuiltThus the limitations indicate that the application of
utility -eseutil/p.the utility will not give the useful results, if applied.
The eseutil/p is the repair mode for the MSThe repaired database is not productive as it is
Exchange Sever. This mode corrects some ofnot complete and also the time which is used
the database corruption problems and hencemay be disastrous. If some of the business
enables Exchange recovery. This inbuilt utilityrelated demands get generated during this long
works at the page and the ESE (Extensiveperiod of repair time then the results could be
Storage Engine) table level but not at thehazardous to the business if not got fulfilled.
application level. The repair goes through theThus this is required that some other alternative
database and checks the critical structures andmust be considered that can end at the perfect
damaged pages inside the database. After theEDB recovery. This alternative comes in the form
repair, for the application-level repair, the ISIntegof the Exchange Server Recovery software
utility must be used.which, without altering the contents of the
But the hard fact is that the utility has somedatabase, repair it intact.
limitations which restrict its usage in some of theThese software are applicable in each case of the
circumstances. Some of them are enlisted below:database corruption, contrary to the eseutil/p
• One of the major disadvantages iswhich is not applicable at the dirty shutdown state.
that if this finds any damaged page then itThe interactive user interface of these Exchange
deletes it. Any of the relevant information mayrecovery software makes the part of the users
get lost in this case like an e-mail message, aquite simple as they need not to put much
calendar appointment and even a part of theefforts in knowing the technical details to use the
system table.software.
• The utility is unable to performStellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the
Exchange Server recovery if the database is inmost developed and accepted utility for Exchange
the dirty shutdown state. The utility demands theServer recovery. The software makes use of
clean shutdown state to repair.the best algorithms for scanning of the corrupted
• The incorrect procedures carried outdatabase and ends up at the perfect and
during the run of the command can lead to thecomplete EDB recovery.
severe not repairable exchange databaseThe recovered data will get stored in the PST file
corruption situations.format and thus usable with MS outlook. You can
• Next limitation is the time consuminguse this software with Microsoft Exchange Server
nature of the scanning procedure. The repair runs5.5, 2000 and 2003.