Migrating GNU dbm databases from SPARC to x86

We're retiring a few of our older SPARC workhorses and moving the processes to x86 VirtualBox OpenSolaris guests. Unfortunately, the primary platform engine uses GNU dbm database files which are big endian on the SPARC. Since these files are heavily loaded and would be tough to restart from scratch, I'm looking for a way to convert the big endian, multi-gigabyte files to little endian so we can simply move then to the x86 platform.
Anyone have a trick up their sleeve?
Thanks
Tim
Edited by: Timpraetor on Jul 22, 2009 7:27 PM
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Thanks - it turns out that one of our Python gurus came up with this same scenario. We dump the tables to text, write them to LTO-3 tape with BRU, restore them onto the x86 system and then re-import them.
Not as clean as I'd hoped, but definitely successful. He'd moved things over by the time we got in this morning (for him, this was an "oh yeah? Well watch this" moment, so he stuck with it til after 2am this morning :-) ).
Thanks.
Edited by: Timpraetor on Jul 23, 2009 8:10 AM
Spelling - again (sheesh)

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