Ways to Fix “RRV Bucket Error” in Lotus Notes

Lotus Notes faces various kinds of errors since its database files are prone to corruption because of various physical and logical errors. Some of them can be improper system shutdown, hardware failure, virus attack, software malfunctioning etc. One more reason responsible for corruption of database is damaged RRV bucket. RRV (Record Relocation Vector) is responsible for finding a specific NoteID by pointing to the Lotus Notes Database. If it becomes corrupted then Notes cannot locate the specific NoteID and an error message “RRV bucket is corrupt” is displayed.

There are various methods available, depending on the cause of the error which can resolve this issue. Some of them are mentioned below:

1) Corrupt bookmarks or icon: Rebuild the desktop5.dsk (R5) file after renaming it. If problem is still there, then log in to the client and if there is any corrupt icon then remove it. Now compact the workspace.

2) Corrupt Database: Restore the latest database backup. Use R fixup -f", then "compact -c -i" command to recover the corrupt database.

3) Corrupt Archived Database: Restore the mailfile from recent backup. Then with the help of backup copy create a new archive database. There are various ways in which new archive database can be created.

Domino Server database can also be used to recover the data if the RRV bucket is not severely corrupted. Various commands like Fixup, compact, updall etc are also available to resolve minor corruption issues. However there is a probability of data loss so keeping a recent database is must. Professional tools are also available which helps in repair and recovery of corrupted Lotus Notes Database.Visit http://www.datarepairtools.com/nsf-to-pst-converter.html for any kind of assistance.