With technology entering every nook and corner of our society, binary data resting in the computer systems is of utmost importance these days. Whether it is the bank account details of a customer stored by the bank employees or the resumes of potential candidates resting on the system of an HR employee of an organization, all data saved in the computer systems in about any field of work today, it hold prime importance. As per this grave significance of this data, its loss is equally devastating for an individual user as well as for the organization he is working for. So data security nets are everywhere necessary. Data needs a shield and protection from harmful data damaging viruses, Trojans and other malware and spyware.

Backup – Your Security Armamentarium

A great way to safeguard your data against any such losses is to make a backup copy of the same which will be there if the original copy gets destroyed. BKF files are created in a Windows Operating System using backup tools like NTBackup and VERITAS. These BKF files help you to restore data from them in case you have lost or deleted the original files.

BKF Files Too Are Prone to Damage/Corruption

You will be sadly surprised to know that even these BKF files are prone to corruption and damage. One of the many reasons due to which your BKF files can be corrupted is that you might be trying to create the backup while BITS was running. This might lead you to confront BKF corruption.

The Backup File Contains Unrecognized Data and Cannot be Used

There are many BKF file corruption cases that lead to reception of erroneous messages as discussed below:  

“The backup file contains unrecognized data and cannot be used"

As soon as you receive such an error message, you will no longer be able to access the data that you are trying to as your access to BKF file gets restricted.

Causes behind the Occurrence of Such Condition

The three most probable causes for such restriction are as follows:

·        If your BKF file is located on another server, then there may be connectivity issues, ownership issues, access permissions, or incorrect mapping.

·        Inappropriate shut down while creating the backup file could also lead to such an error message.

·        Last but not the least is the large size of the BKF file which leads to such an error.

Repair Corrupt Windows Backup

To recover data from a corrupt or inaccessible BKF file, you are left with only one option that is to use a third party tool which can recover data from even the corrupt BKF file. One sure shot solution is to use a third-party tool that can help you with this BKF recovery process which can even perform repair of corrupt data during the process of recovery itself and fix any such error messages.