Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Recovering an Exchange Database With Missing Log Files and Avoiding Dirty State Backup

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Recovering an Exchange Database With Missing Log Files and Avoiding Dirty State Backup
Recovering an Exchange Database With Missing Log Files and Avoiding Dirty State Backup

It has become an adopted theory that for recovering an Exchange database, log files should be available. In this article, we will discuss the importance of transaction log file availability and what can be done to recover an Exchange database when log files are missing.

Hypothetical situation: A backup of the Exchange database (EDB) file is available, but there are no transaction logs. How do we bring the database back to a functional state? Will the database be restored with all the changes made to it?

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