How to view Berkeley DB contents?

Question

I have a copy of addressbook from Nokia N900 and it's a Berkeley DB file. How can I view it's contents?

$ file addressbook.db 
addressbook.db: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte-order)

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 08 '18 at 14:18

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Install db-util. There are several in Ubuntu Software Center (for example db5.3-util). The latest version via command line:

sudo apt-get install db-util

After installing all you need to do is:

db_dump addressbook.db

Description of an old version from USC:

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edited May 08 '18 at 14:18

MCCCS

answered Apr 21 '14 at 12:58

Rinzwind

It didn't really work for me, but that's more of this DB specifics. https://github.com/tersmitten/n900-backup-extractor – int_ua Apr 22 '14 at 12:12
@int_ua then you should upvote your own answer (but we would appreciate if you did not link-dump but make it a real answer ;) – Rinzwind Apr 22 '14 at 12:15
The code in question is quite big and under version control. I don't think it's a good choice to include it, do you? What else can be done? – int_ua Apr 22 '14 at 13:15
P.S. I can't upvote my own answers :) – int_ua Apr 22 '14 at 13:16
oh wait; you can accept it ;-) – Rinzwind Apr 22 '14 at 13:38

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 22 '14 at 12:05

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For this specific DB I have to use this script:

answered Apr 22 '14 at 12:05

int_ua

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 23 '16 at 08:21

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If you have postfix installed, try

postmap -s <database-file-name>

For example, with the two files virtual and virtual.db, where virtual is the text file from which virtual.db was made with makemap, use

postmap -s virtual

Note that you do not have to specify the .db extension.

edited Jul 23 '16 at 08:21

graham

answered Jul 23 '16 at 07:12

pbw

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