Re: DB_FILE from LINUX to Windows

Failing all else, I recommend defining a text-file format that you can dump to and load from with simple scripts. That will enable you to easily migrate data across platforms and across versions of the dbm.

Then I strongly recommend that you make taking a text backup part of your regular backup strategy. (If you don't have a regular backup strategy, then I recommend starting one before you find that you needed it...)

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Re: Re: DB_FILE from LINUX to Windows by tbone1 (Monsignor) on Oct 14, 2003 at 12:11 UTC
What tilly said. I had this problem once, a while back, and the only way to get the data across was to extract to text, ftp, and put it into a new, created-n-the-Windows-machine database. It wasn't pretty, God knows, and it denied laziness; however, it worked, which is the important thing. -- tbone1 Ain't enough 'O's in 'stoopid' to describe that guy. - Dave "the King" Wilson	[reply]