Read and extract data from .NBU Nokia Backup Files
If you have a Nokia mobile phone and have ever tried backing up data from your phone on to your PC, you’d have noticed the Nokia PC Suite creating a file called .NBU that contains a backup of your data. These .NBU files can be restored to your phone later using the PC Suite itself but the bottom-line is that you can’t extract pieces of data from that file.
Here’s what I mean: You can create an .NBU backup and restore it completely to your phone afterward. But you just can’t read an individual SMS message, contacts list data, graphic or theme from that backup. That means it’s pretty useless from one point of view. You could even face problems if you try to restore the backup to a phone of a different model.
Is there a way to make these files readable, you ask? Well, there is. Thanks to a third party software called Noki, it’s possible to view individual graphics, messages, drafts, contacts and other data from your backed up .NBU file. What’s more, you could even extract this data into a simple format. For instance, you could convert your contacts into a simple .csv/text/html file. Cool, isn’t it?
Noki, which tags itself as the Explorer for Nokia PC Suite files, can be downloaded from here. It does live up to its name by allowing you to extract all kinds of data from your Nokia mobile phone backup. Good luck!
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Unfortunately, such simple software is not free!
Seb
4 Jan 09 at 6:42 pm
oh Gosh..
is it realy not free.
can we have a trail version. somehow.??
bryan Zee
7 Feb 09 at 3:45 am
It could not open *.NBF file Which is in build backup fuction in nokia phone (Nokia 5310 Xpress|v 9.42) It open just nokia pc suit backup file( i think) & it take much time to load msg when massegs in phone memory of msgs more then then some MB (i have stored my msgs 10MB:more then 9535 MSGS +22 MMS included) & it took much time to create backup so it’s fact it’s take much time to load msgs.
Yerik
19 Feb 09 at 12:51 pm
Better solution is to get all your contents exported into a .csv file. wich can be later read easily by many softwares. or even simpl text file.
take back up and export the data same day ..soo all the back would be in csv file as well to review..
please let me know if u have further problems. Bryan.zee.zee@gmail.com
bryan Zee
19 Feb 09 at 6:55 pm
the supported backup file formats are:
1) .nbu file : pc suite v6.82 and later format
2) .nfb / .nfc file: pre pc suite 6.82 format
3) backup.arc file: phone memory backup file on the SD card
4) contacts.cdb file: symbian phonebook database
there’s also a backup file recovery complete guide.
marvin
3 Mar 09 at 3:00 pm
thank you
suicide
28 Jun 09 at 7:02 pm
Dear Sirs,
Just lost my Nokia phone. To get back my phone numbers from PC file file NOKIA E65…nbu used the software NOKI.
The problem is that it extracts the phonebook saying – phonebook (192) but then I only can see 50 persons/numbers. Where are the remaining as indeed I have 192? Anybody know anything to help me?
Much apreciated & Thanks
JONY
30 Jun 09 at 2:12 pm