Exchange server transaction log files which keep tracks of all activities that takes place on the server. Lot of transactions are done on the mailboxes, in result lot of entries are made into the the log files. Huge amount of data written into these log files, Size of the log files increase and becomes an issue like file corruption and damage. Log files are important to get back exchange server to consistent state if it goes out of service.
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Exchange Server is termed as a transaction based mailing system. The set of operations that are processed against a database. It can be sending a mail or receiving a mail, change in an email state (read or unread), moving / deleting message from a folder etc. A transaction is committed to the Exchange Server Engine (ESE) database only when it satisfied the ACID test.
When database is mounted on server, always the mounted database will be in dirty state. It is mandatory to have log files available. if all the files EDB and log files are restored from backup, Exchange server is able replaying the log files against the restored database, replaying the logs helps to make the database updated. (Uncommitted transactions will be updated to database).
If the database against which the log files are to be replayed is consistent in state, then there is no requirement for log files for recovery.
If the restored database is inconsistent, then log files are required for bringing back it into consistent state.
If the database is inconsistent and no log files are available, then the only option is to repair the database using ESEutil.
Many of them practice email vaulting to get rid of these problems of the Exchange file system. Exchange server related files like PST, EDB, STM and log files are stored in a structured manager such that they can be controlled with minimizing the server downtime in case of server not responding. This method fails if the log files are heavily corrupted.
In this situation, there is no option to recover damaged log files. You can try to run one full backup which help sometime to make healthy damaged logs.
There’s no built in mechanism to remove errors from Exchange log files. Exchange server offline Recovery products will come in handy in these situations. Such software will be extracting all data from damaged EDB files and save them as new PST files.
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