Hi,

I'm trying to recover some of the data stored in my blog that became
unavailable when my hosting provider decide to update their version of
Berkeley DB. (I tried their support route but they still insist it's
not their fault).

I installed Berkeley 4.3.29 in my Windows XP laptop, and tried to run
db_dump on my .db files. However, I get the following error:

db_dump: author.db: unexpected file type or format
db_dump: open: author.db: Invalid argument

I believe - but I'm new to Berkeley DB - this is because the files
were created with Berkeley v1.x, so I'd need to run db_dump185 which,
unfortunately, isn't included in the binary distribution.

Since I don't have a C++ compiler at hand, is there any place I can
get a binary version of db_dump185?

Thanks in advance,

/david

You might want to try this on some version of UNIX, the Windows build
support does
not build db_dump185, and you'd still need to get Berkeley DB
version 1.85 running on Windows before it would work.

Ron

Thanks for your response, Ron.

I'll install Linux then, and try there,

/david