Exchange Server Recovery after Error -1216

Sometimes while performing recovery on Microsoft Exchange Server, the storage group may stop unexpectedly. At this point of time, you may receive the following error message:

Event Type: Error

Event Source: ESE98

Event Category: Logging/Recovery

Event ID: 0

Date: 4/24/2001

Time: 6:20:18 PM

User: N/A

Computer: EXCHANGE1

Description: Information Store (4312) Database recovery failed with error -1216 because it encountered references to a database, 'D:exchsrvrmdbdataPRIV2.edb', which is no longer present. The database was not brought to a consistent state before it was removed (or possibly moved or renamed). The database engine will not permit recovery to complete for this instance until the missing database is re-instated. If the database is truly no longer available and no longer required, please contact PSS for further instructions regarding the steps required in order to allow recovery to proceed without this database.

After this error message, you won't be able to recover anything from your Exchange Server database. All of the database files in storage group become inconsistent.

Grounds of the trouble

This error message is triggered when comparison of database file's header information in the EDB file and log files shows that there has been surrogate or removal of important files.

This is the warning to database administrator that if software recovery is performed, it may allow the storage group to begin, but would leave it running with some data missing. If you continue recovery, it may be difficult or somewhat impossible to re-integrate missing data and information.

In such situations, it is recommended not to continue the recovery process as it may harshly damage the database. So, the question is what to do next to repair the EDB file? The simplest answer of this question is to use Exchange Server recovery software.

Exchange Server recovery are the specially designed applications, which are useful for carrying out EDB recovery in almost all of the situations of corruption. Most of the EDB repair software are fully automated and thus don't require much human interaction. After selecting the damaged file and starting Exchange Server repair process, you don't need to do anything.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the best ever made and the most influential Exchange Server recovery software which is famous for performing absolute MDB recovery in all cases. With simple, cool looking and interactive user interface, it is very easy to do Exchange Server repair using this software.

Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery software can repair and restore all of the Exchange Server database objects including emails, notes, contacts, calendar entries, journal and many alike. The recovered files are saved in the form of PST, directly usable with Microsoft Outlook email client.