Berkeley DB upgrade

C. P. Ghost cpghost at cordula.ws
Sat Mar 13 11:17:49 UTC 2010


On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Erik Norgaard <norgaard at locolomo.org> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I want to upgrade my BerkeleyDB, I have some 500MB in BDB 43.
>
> - What is the latest stable version?
> - Is there any way of determining if datafiles are compatible
>  across versions?
> - Is there any tool for migrating between versions?

The upgrade process is explained here:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/programmer_reference/am_upgrade.html

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/programmer_reference/upgrade_process.html

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/api_reference/C/db_upgrade.html

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/api_reference/C/dbupgrade.html

Of course, don't forget to backup your old data before upgrading! ;-)

> Thanks, Erik
>
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> Erik Nørgaard
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