BKF Repair & Recovery Software

Every user maintains a backup of his data on one or more storage media. Operating systems like Windows NT and above allow you to create a backup and save it in BKF (MS Backup File) format. Corruption in BKF files mainly occurs due to file system corruption, improper system, media errors, malicious software like virus and more. In such situations, you need to recover the BKF file data from latest backup. As it is a backup file, in most of the cases the user only creates only one BKF file. To recover and restore the BKF file in such scenarios, he needs to recover it by using effective bkf repair tool.

You might encounter the below error message when you attempt to create a BKF file of some videos:

“The fixed media is full. You cannot back up all of the specified data to this disk device.
The backup operation will stop.”

The above error message mainly appears for the computer systems using FAT or FAT32 file systems. These file systems are compatible with maximum file size of about 4 GB. If you attempt to create a BKF file (of videos more than 4 GB in size) on a FAT partition, the BKF file may get corrupted.

To prevent the occurrence of the above error message, you need to use NTFS file system as it is compatible with large files of size up to 16 Exabytes. You need to convert the file system to NTFS using the below command:

convert <Drive:> /FS=NTFS

To resolve the above error and access the corrupted BKF file, you need to use Microsoft Backup File Repair software. Such applications effectively scan the corrupted BKF files and extract the important information from them. MS Backup Recovery applications do not refer to the size of corrupted BKF files and provide complete repair in all possible scenarios. With highly graphical and interactive user interface these recovery utilities are easy to understand without prior technical knowledge. They also come with detailed graphical documentation to make the repair and recovery experience user-friendly.

Stellar Phoenix BKF Recovery is the most reliable utility that provides powerful Microsoft Backup File Repair. It efficiently scans and repairs the corrupted BKF files. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000. It also provides BKF File Repair for files created with Backup Exec by VERITAS software. The demo version of this utility is provided on the Stellar’s website.

Stellar Information Systems Limited, the pioneers of data recovery, announces its BKF repair software launch. Stellar Phoenix BKF Recovery scans and recovers corrupt BKF files. The company has launched it as the all-time solution for corrupt BKF files of Windows 2003, XP and 2000 backup utilities.

Stellar has been offering extremely fine file repair utilities since its foundation. Now, the launch of this Phoenix BKF repair adds to this set. The software supports Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000. Stellar has designed its interface quite competently and hence application can be easily used through. It also supports repairing BKF files that have been created with Backup Exec by VERITAS Software.

It offers different time saving options. Once scanned file information can be saved using ‘Save Scan Information’ option. The file is saved as .DAT file that can be later uploaded and resumed for recovery through ‘Open BKF file using scan information’ option. Also it supports extensive research options that help exploring and then recovering corrupt BKF. The algorithms are quite powerful to repair BKF corruption in all instances.

In all, the application’s extensive set of useful features makes it distinguishable from its kinds. The application performs automated and safe recovery after file selection. It has rich interface. Also Live Update is the option that will keep the software ever renewed from all company released updates. It read-only is what makes it a safe BKF repair tool.

The application is truly a complete BKF repair package for all business users, home-based users, network administrators and IT pros. It will give you all ever expected features.

About Stellar

Stellar Information Systems Limited is the leading data recovery company of industry. Its product range involves various data recovery software for different operating systems, file repair applications, mail recovery software, data sanitization tools and data protection software. The company also offers data recovery services for different storage media. Its satisfied customers (about 1,000,000 in number) are across all over the world. Stellar is a market-known name for 16 years. Recently company has installed its service centers at major locations of world

When you try to restore backup from a BKF file using NTBackup utility on a server acting as a domain controller with Windows Server 2003 SP1 or SP2, the restoration process may fail. You can encounter certain error messages as:

“Backup Status
Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: “bkup_file.bkf created MM/DD/YYYY at HH:MM AM|PM”
NTDS has reported a VSS error 0×800423f0.”

Because a user can not carry out system state backups and restores, objects in Active Directory could not be restored on the domain controller. Thus a user can not perform the following operations:
. Restore deleted objects
. Retrieve data from corrupted BKF files
. Restore Active Directory on a computer that can not load Active Directory after improper system shutdown

After this behavior of NTBackup utility, the restoration process gets terminated and you can not get your precious data back.

Cause
In Windows Server 2003 SP1 or SP2, the restoration works only when the operating system, the log files and the database are all on same disk volume or all are on different drives. However, this problem occurs when one volume, either log or ntds.dit file is on system drive. It results into BKF file corruption and thus the restoration fails.

In such situations, the only thing which can save your data is bkf repair. You can easily carry out the BKF File Repair using Microsoft Backup File Repair software.

These software are specifically designed to achieve MS Backup Recovery by thoroughly scanning the corrupted BKF file. Microsoft Backup File Repair software are user friendly applications and empower you to achieve quick and simple BKF File Repair.

Stellar Phoenix BKF Recovery is the most advanced and influential BKF File Repair software that works in all BKF corruption scenarios. Such ms backup Recovery tool comes equipped with interactive user interface and rich graphical support.

This BKF File Repair tool can repair BKF files created using backup utilities of Windows XP, 2003 and 2000. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.

When you try to restore data from BKF file, you may encounter verify errors in NTBackup.exe tool. The errors may be displayed either in Backup.log file or on NTBackup screen. These errors would be in the following format:

“*File information found on tape:
*%FileName% %Size% %Date% %Time%
*File information found on disk:
*%FileName% %Size% %Date% %Time%
*Difference encountered in alternate file data.
*The file %FileName% is different.”

This problem generally occurs on large sized NTFS file system based Windows partitions.

Cause

There are two possible reasons of this problem:

.  It is caused by the NTBackup.exe tool while checking stream size of data that might change every time when you create backup.
.  BKF file is corrupted. Due to corruption, NTBackup.exe can not read data from it and thus can not restore your precious files.

If this error occurs due to corruption to the BKF file, you might face serious problems. To overcome these issues, you need to go for BKF File Repair.

BKF File Repair is the process of scanning the corrupted file, repairing it and then restoring it to its original format. After that, you can easily restore your data from BKF file using NTBackup.exe tool.

BKF File Repair process can be handled automatically using third party software, known as Microsoft Backup File Repair tools. These software are able to perform ms backup Recovery in the majority of corruption cases.

These software may vary from one another in terms of features. You should always go for the most powerful one to ensure perfect bkf repair results.

Stellar Phoenix BKF Recovery is the ultimate solution for all your BKF corruption worries. It supports MS Backup Recovery form BKF files created using NTBackup tools of Windows 2000, XP and 2003. Phoenix Microsoft Backup File Repair tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.

When you attempt to restore files using NTBackup.exe backup tool in Windows, sometimes the files might not get restored properly. Here you may also encounter certain error messages.

Cause

You may experience this behavior of NTBackup.exe because of any of the following reasons:

Corrupt File

Some third party backup software set following value to 1 while installing, but Windows NTBackup.exe sets it to 0:
“HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ntbackup\Backup Engine\Backup files inuse”
The open files are usually in a conflicting state and when you try to backup these files, the whole BKF file may get corrupted.

Missing File

If the value of above entry is set to 0, backup tool skips the open files; thus, some of the files might be missing when you restore files from backup.

Resolution

To solve this problem, go through the following steps:
.    Set the underwritten value to 0:

“HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ntbackup\Backup Engine\Backup files inuse”
.    Ensure that the file is consistent before you backup.
These methods are really helpful but work only to prevent this problem from occurring in future. They can not repair your corrupted BKF file and thus can not help you to carry out BKF File Repair.
To perform BKF File Repair and restore your precious data, you need to use third party applications, known as Microsoft Backup file repair software. These are fully automated MS Backup Recovery tools that scan your corrupted BKF file and extract as much data as possible from it.
You may find a wide range of bkf repair software in the market, but absolute MS Backup Recovery needs a powerful and sophisticated Microsoft Backup File Repair software such as Stellar Phoenix BKF Recovery.
Phoenix BKF File Repair tool works smoothly to repair damaged BKF files and is capable of handling most of the BKF corruption situations. It can repair BKF files created using backup tools of Windows XP, 2003 and 2000. This ms backup Recovery application is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.

The backup utility (NTBackup.exe) of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 might unpredictably delete the archive bit information when user backs up data to the BKF file. Along with this, you may find that the “File is ready for archiving” check box isn’t checked when you right-click on the file and go to Properties-> Advanced.
After this problem, when you try to restore your critical data from backup using NTBackup.exe tool, you fail to do it. The backup file is unusable and you can not restore the stored data from it.

Grounds of this issue

This behavior of NTBackup.exe tool occurs if the “Verify data after backup completes” check box is selected under Options dialog box. It results into the deletion of Archive Bit and corrupts BKF file.

.    The Archive Bit information is used to verify which file has been backed up previously on Windows file system. This bit is set if the file is altered. The NTBackup.exe can clear this bit when it performs full backup.
No matter what the cause of this problem is, ultimately it would result into the loss of your precious data.

Resolution

To solve out this problem, Microsoft has released a hotfix. It can be downloaded from Microsoft’s website. It can prevent this problem from being occurred in future but can not repair the corrupted BKF file. To repair bkf File, you need to carry out BKF File Repair. It is possible using third party Microsoft Backup File Repair software known as ms backup Recovery tool. The BKF File Repair software are designed to methodically scan corrupted BKF file and extract each and every bit of data from it. These software are fully automated and allows you to have easy Microsoft Backup File Repair.

Stellar Phoenix BKF Recovery is the most influential and most productive BKF File Repair software that works in most of the BKF corruption scenarios. It is applicable to all BKF files created using Windows 2000, XP and 2003 backup tools. It is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.