A small analysis on BKF file corruption and possible ways to perform BKF recovery

In an organization, the data grows exponentially. Every bit of it is important as you have spend your most valuable time, invested a lot of resources and money, and put in your earnest hard work. If this data gets lost, then all your efforts will go in vain. Even a temporary inaccessibility of data may cause a serious loss to your business.

Data loss can occur due to numerous reasons, such as computer viruses, software corruption, hardware malfunction etc. Backup provide data security in all the above mentioned instances of data loss. Windows operating system uses an built-in utility NTBackup to perform the backup task for its users. Using this tool, users can even schedule backup operations at regular time periods. It creates a BKF format file to store the confidential backed up data. Sometimes these BKF files become corrupt and cause the data restoration process to fail at the time of a system or hardware crash. To overcome the problem, you need to go for BKF recovery through a reliable third-party utility.

For instance, when you try to restore data from a BKF file using the NTBackup tool on a Windows XP-based computer, you may come across the following error message:

“An inconsistency was encountered in the requested backup file”

Cause:
The BKF file may be corrupt due to anyone of the following reasons-
Virus or malware infection
Improper system shutdown
Header corruption
Missing catalog files
Application malfunction

As a consequence, the NTBackup utility is unable to recognize the BKF file. This would prevent you from restoring your precious data from the backup. In such circumstances, follow the below given resolution steps to perform BKF repair of the corrupt file.

Resolution:
To resolve the issue, you should take help of an efficient BKF recovery software. These software are comprehensible and easy-to-implement. They first search for the BKF files in the system and then scan the selected BKF files for recovery. They provide users an option to save the scan information which can be used to perform recovery at any later stage. Moreover, they can automatically install the latest software updates from the Internet.

Stellar Phoenix BKF Recovery is a powerful tool that recovers and restores damaged backup files containing your valuable data. The software can repair corrupt BKF files created using NTBackup utility or Backup Exec by Veritas Software. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

BKF Recovery Software- beneficiary backpack

The Stellar Phoenix BKF recovery software provides all essentials which you need for recovery.

Advantages:
Stellar Phoenix BKF recovery software has following benefits:

1) Cost-effective
It costs just $99 to have a personal licensed version of Stellar Phoenix BKF repair software and for Corporate license the price is $199. From cost point of consideration, BKF repair software is quiet cost-effective and thus, worth paying.

2) Do-It-Yourself
This BKF recovery tool is self-explanatory and user-friendly tool which requires less efforts and to run this you not need to be tech savvy. It is very simple to understand and use. Stellar Phoenix BKF recovery software offers rich user-interface which makes it easy to use and enables you to save the repaired BKF file at the location specified by you

3)Robust and Secure
The data such as the name of the file, date modified etc remains same after the bkf recovery is done by the software.

4)Availability of Free Demo Version

The free Demo version of Stellar BKF Repair software lets you to evaluates its functionality and outcomes in form of preview of the recoverable files. This version will not allow you to extract and repair bkf files.

5) Search option is available
Before bkf file recovery, this software searches for bkf file(s) in the system to repair.

6) Unlimited size file repair
This software can repair files of any size of any size i.e. there is no size limit up to which you can repair.

8) Folder structure is preserved
At the time of BKF recovery, Stellar BKF Repair Software does not alter the original BKF file during the Backup repair of bkf files.

9) File quality not hampered
Allows you to save the scan information in the form of .dat file that can be used later for BKF repair
While using any data recovery software, the first question that takes birth in any user’s mind is that of the file quality, which is assured and ensured if you use Stellar Repair BKF software to repair corrupted bkf files.

10) Compatibility With Advanced OS
This software supports all advanced Windows versions like Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000 and recovers BKF files created by inbuilt Windows NTBackup tool in Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003

BKF file decomposition post Virus attack

A computer virus is an infectious agent that can replicate inside the network file system or file system and exploits secured vulnerabilities which may harm the data saved on the hard drive. A virus spreads itself automatically through networks and competent enough to delete or corrupt any file, even if it is backup file. In case, If backup file gets corrupt then it becomes very difficult for user to access the data which was saved in that file. A corrupted BKF file can be identified easily as corrupt file shows some weird characters instead of original data at the time of opening the same file. In such situations, If you wish to access the data saved in BKF file, you need to restore the data from another backup. Since backup of all the data is saved in BKF file so there is least probability to have another backup of same file. In such cases, you must use a third party BKF repair software.

Few most common viruses that corrupt your BKF files are Scores, Rabbit, ILOVEYOU, Egg, INIT1984. All virus owns few limitations to destroy BKF file. When your backup file is corrupt you may find:

Either,
The file doesn't allow to display the data at all.
Or,
The file will be displayed with decrypted characters

To abstain BKF files from being affected by a virus attack, you should always follow the following corrective measures:

Always keep a updated anti-virus software in your system.
Before you attach a hardware to your system, check properly whether the file is virus free
Always scan the files which are intended to be downloaded from Internet.

However, if the BKF file is already corrupted, then you must go for third party BKF Repair software to repair corrupt BKF file.

A Backup repair tool uses such an advanced scanning algorithm which thoroughly scans the corrupt BKF file and saves the recoverable file at user-specified location. The file repair tool is just do-it- yourself tool that makes it easily accessible without any before handed technical knowledge. This tool is completely non-destructive and does not harm the original data.

Stellar Phoenix BKF Repair is a reliable BKF file repair software that repairs corrupt BKF files. Besides repairing BKF files created in Windows XP, 2000 , NTBackup utilities, 2003, the BKF repair utility also repairs files developed using Backup Exec application by Symantec and VERITAS. And is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.