Examining Berkeley DB files from the CLI

Question

I have a set of Berkeley DB files on my Linux file system that I\'d like to examine.

What useful tools exist for getting a quick overview of the contents? I can writ

Answer 1

The db_hotbackup utility creates "hot backup" or "hot failover" snapshots of Berkeley DB database environments. Install it with the following

apt-get install db-util

then run following command to take hot backup

db_hotbackup [-cDEguVv] [-d data_dir ...] [-h home] [-l log_dir] [-P password] -b backup_dir