Berkeley DB

Dump Output Formats

There are two output formats used by db_dump and db_dump185. In both output formats, the first few lines of the output contain header information describing the underlying access method, filesystem page size, and other bookkeeping information.

The header information starts with a single line, VERSION=N, where N is the version number of the dump output format.

The header information is then output in name=value pairs, where name may be any of the keywords listed in the db_load manual page, and value will be its value. Although this header information can be manually edited before the database is reloaded, there is rarely any reason to do so because all this information can also be specified or overridden by command-line arguments ...