In this internet era, safety and security of our personal and professional data is our utmost concern. With the rapid usage of computers at home and in our workplaces, data security is always one of the crucial factors we have to face. In fact, every one of us is moving towards digital age or paperless office and leaving behind the hard copies which we used to work on earlier. Hence we need to be smart enough to keep our databases and files secured from corruption. There are many of us who always keep a backup of their files and delete the not so important files. But doing this can’t be termed as the best solution. As What will happen if your backup files get corrupted?

Now let us understand ‘What is BKF files‘?

See BKF file is basically the backup file extensions created by NTBackup Utility Tool, it is a built-in backup application from Microsoft. Whose main function is to create automatic backups of the database files of its users. This utility tool saves this backup files in .bkf format. And that is BKF files for you in layman terms.

But there is an issue with this file format and that is, it is not immune from viruses and mail wares. Hence, this file is prone to corruption. Which ultimately leads to inaccessible files.

The major concern that we all face is in the recovery process. Recovering corrupt BKF files is not that easy and there are great chances of losing your data. Plus the best part is that there are no manual procedures or techniques to recover these corrupt BKF files.

You might be thinking, then what should anyone do?

For that, there is only one solution and that is to use a BKF Repair Tool or in layman terms a third party tool. If you simply Google it..you will get a ‘N’ number of tools to recover and repair your corrupt BKF files. But the big question is “which BKF Repair Tool should I choose?”

Yes, you have a valid concern. And that is why I am here.

As I said earlier, you would get a wide range of BKF repair tools in the market and most all of them work like same. The only difference that differentiated them is their features, recovery level and their price. It’s easy to compare prices but comparing two or four recovery tools on the base of features and recovery model is quite hard. Some of them are high on prices but don’t perform full recovery and some of them are priced low and perform full recovery with some great on the top features.

Overview on Pro Version of SysInfoTools BKF Recovery Tool

Here I am describing the top most feature of SysInfoTools Backup Exec BKF Repair Pro (V2.0), that makes it really a good tool and have got some excellent reviews from worldwide users.

Feature Table Components SysInfoTools Recovering files made by Symantec backup Utility tool Yes Recovering .bkf extensions

created by NT backup utility tool Yes Restoring corrupt BKF files made by VERITAS Backup tool Yes Recovery of Unicode Characters Yes MS SQL Database recovery Yes Repair & recovery of Exchange Backup Yes Compressed files recovery Yes Capabilities & Features Support multiple BKF files Yes Support split BKF files Yes Supports CRC Corruption issues Yes Note: The latter one supports alltypes of corruption including the CRC corruption issue File Types Supports all file types Flexible saving options Available Snapshot feature Available Pause option during recovery Not Available Scanning Modes Two Load & Save recovery snapshot option Available Preview Options Available Search options Available TXT format option Available List creation option Available Free Version Available Note: Both the free versions allow you to repair all your BKF files without the option of saving it. You can preview the recovered files. Technical support Available CLI Version / support Available Windows Compatibility Yes Version 2.0 Money back guarantee Available Price Personal License $399 Corporate License $499 Technical License $599

Here was the comparison of the features and the capabilities of the renowned BKF Repair Tool.

So now let’s see their step by step manuals with the help of ScreenShots

SysInfoTools Backup EXEC BKF Repair Pro Step By Step Procedure

Step 01: Launch the application, click Open and then click on Add Files

Step 02: Now select the ,bkf files that you want to recover. Then click on Save

Step 03: In the third step, you have to select the recovery mode i.e. Standard or Advanced. Plus you can also opt for SQL database recovery, if you need to.

Step 04: Now wait for a minute or so, as the scanning process would take some time

Step 05: As soon as the scanning process is completed, click on OK

Step 06: As the scanning process is done, now you may check the preview of those files you are going to recover in the later part.

Step 07: Now after previewing your files, now select those ones which you want to recover. If there are any specific files that you want to recover, select those or else you can restore all the corrupt BKF files

Step 08: After selection, browse the location where you want to save these recovered files

Step 09: And finally, your recovery process has been done. Click OK. So here was the manual procedure for both of these BKF repair Tools.

Author’s Verdict

As it is very clear from the above feature table that SysInfoTools have created an excellent software to recover corrupt windows backup(.bkf) files. However, the latter has some extraordinary features which others don’t have like:

Supports recovery of multiple and split BKF files

Recovery modes

Option to restore SQL Database Recovery

Recover compressed files and

Availability of list creation

So in terms of features and capabilities SysInfoTools Backup Exec BKF Repair Pro is comparatively better than other recovery software.

So I would say, it is totally up to you what you want to choose. If you have split or compressed BKF files then the only option is SysInfoTools as no other tools in the market provide this option to recover split and compressed bkf files. Also you may also check out this BKF Repair Tool from SysInfotools.

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