I was forced to move to a new server recently and now I cannot get my web-based application to work anymore. (There are people getting real upset with me now.) The old application running on the new server is not able to open the old Berkley DB file (on the new server) and I also am not having any luck db_dump'ing it either. I'm not real familiar with Berkley DB's, I just use them sometimes. Please help me if you can and I will be eternally grateful!!! (I should also mention that I no longer have access to the old server, which may be a problem but I'm hoping not.)

Here are some technical details from the new server that I hope will tell you exactly what the problem is:

[kurt@amber]$ ll
total 436
-rw-------    1 kurt     kurt        12288 Nov 22 22:09 new.db
-rw-r--r--    1 kurt     kurt       212992 Nov 22 21:35 old.db
[kurt@amber]$ file old.db
old.db: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 5, native byte-order)
[kurt@amber]$ file new.db
new.db: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 7, native byte-order)
[kurt@amber]$ db_dump old.db
db_dump: old.db: hash version 5 requires a version upgrade
db_dump:open:old.db:DB_OLDVERSION:Database requires a version upgrade
[kurt@amber]$ db_dump185 old.db
db_dump185: old.db: Invalid argument
[kurt@amber]$

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NODE UPDATE Thanks to diotalevi for pointing out that the db_upgrade utility was staring me right in the face! Thanks for the help! I'm up and running again!!!

In reply to Berkley DB version problems; work stoppage! by kleucht

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