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NAME

       db4.8_dump - Write database to flat-text format

SYNOPSIS

       db4.8_dump  [-klNpRrV] [-d ahr] [-f output] [-h home] [-P password] [-s
       database] file

DESCRIPTION

       The db4.8_dump utility reads the database file file and  writes  it  to
       the standard output using a portable flat-text format understood by the
       db4.8_load utility.  The file argument must be a  file  produced  using
       the Berkeley DB library functions.

OPTIONS

       -d     Dump  the  specified  database in a format helpful for debugging
              the Berkeley DB library routines.

              a      Display all information.

              h      Display only page headers.

              r      Do not display the free-list or pages on the  free  list.
                     This mode is used by the recovery tests.

              The  output  format  of  the  -d  option is not standard and may
              change, without notice, between  releases  of  the  Berkeley  DB
              library.

       -f     Write to the specified file instead of to the standard output.

       -h     Specify  a  home  directory  for  the  database  environment; by
              default, the current working directory is used.

       -k     Dump record numbers from Queue and Recno databases as keys.

       -l     List the databases stored in the file.

       -N     Do not acquire  shared  region  mutexes  while  running.   Other
              problems,  such as potentially fatal errors in Berkeley DB, will
              be ignored as well.  This option is intended only for  debugging
              errors, and should not be used under any other circumstances.

       -P     Specify an environment password.  Although Berkeley DB utilities
              overwrite password strings as soon as possible, be  aware  there
              may  be  a window of vulnerability on systems where unprivileged
              users can see command-line arguments or where utilities are  not
              able   to  overwrite  the  memory  containing  the  command-line
              arguments.

       -p     If characters in either the  key  or  data  items  are  printing
              characters  (as  defined by isprint(3)), use printing characters
              in file to represent them.  This option  permits  users  to  use
              standard  text  editors  and  tools  to  modify  the contents of
              databases.

              Note: different systems may have different  notions  about  what
              characters  are  considered  printing  characters, and databases
              dumped in this manner may be less portable to external  systems.

       -R     Aggressively  salvage data from a possibly corrupt file.  The -R
              flag differs from the -r option  in  that  it  will  return  all
              possible  data  from  the  file  at  the  risk of also returning
              already deleted or otherwise nonsensical items.  Data dumped  in
              this  fashion will almost certainly have to be edited by hand or
              other means before the data is ready  for  reload  into  another
              database

       -r     Salvage  data  from  a  possibly  corrupt  file.  When used on a
              uncorrupted database, this option should return equivalent  data
              to a normal dump, but most likely in a different order.

       -s     Specify a single database to dump.  If no database is specified,
              all databases in the database file are dumped.

       -V     Write the library version number to  the  standard  output,  and
              exit.

       Dumping  and  reloading  Hash  databases  that  use  user-defined  hash
       functions will result in  new  databases  that  use  the  default  hash
       function.   Although using the default hash function may not be optimal
       for the new database, it will continue to work correctly.

       Dumping and reloading Btree databases that use user-defined  prefix  or
       comparison  functions will result in new databases that use the default
       prefix and comparison functions.  In this case, it is quite likely that
       the  database  will  be damaged beyond repair permitting neither record
       storage or retrieval.

       The only available workaround for either case is to modify the  sources
       for the db4.8_load utility to load the database using the correct hash,
       prefix, and comparison functions.

       The db4.8_dump utility output format is documented in the  Dump  Output
       Formats section of the Berkeley DB Reference Guide.

       The  db4.8_dump  utility may be used with a Berkeley DB environment (as
       described for the -h  option,  the  environment  variable  DB_HOME,  or
       because  the  utility  was  run in a directory containing a Berkeley DB
       environment).  In order to avoid environment corruption  when  using  a
       Berkeley  DB  environment, db4.8_dump should always be given the chance
       to  detach  from  the  environment  and  exit  gracefully.   To   cause
       db4.8_dump  to release all environment resources and exit cleanly, send
       it an interrupt signal (SIGINT).

       Even when using a Berkeley  DB  database  environment,  the  db4.8_dump
       utility does not use any kind of database locking if it is invoked with
       the -d, -R, or -r arguments.   If used with one of these arguments, the
       db4.8_dump  utility  may  only  be safely run on databases that are not
       being modified by any other  process;  otherwise,  the  output  may  be
       corrupt.

       The db4.8_dump utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

ENVIRONMENT

       DB_HOME
              If  the  -h option is not specified and the environment variable
              DB_HOME is set, it is used as the path of the database home,  as
              described in DB_ENV->open.

AUTHORS

       Sleepycat Software, Inc. This manual page was created based on the HTML
       documentation  for  db_dump  from   Sleepycat,   by   Thijs   Kinkhorst
       <thijs@kinkhorst.com>,  for  the  Debian  system  (but  may  be used by
       others).

                                28 January 2005