Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your MBK file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert MBK to another file type
To convert your MBK file to another format, you need Marg ERP 9+ or other Backup software.
Convert a file to MBK
To convert other file formats to the "Accounting System Backup" file type, you need software like Marg ERP 9+ or a similar tool.
About MBK files
The .MBK file extension is primarily generated by Marg ERP 9+, a widely used inventory and accounting solution, to store compressed backups of financial years, transaction logs, and customer databases. A secondary but significant portion of these files originates from MISA SME software or legacy Nokia mobile devices. While essential for disaster recovery, .MBK files present a major accessibility challenge: they are proprietary containers often based on ZIP compression or SQL dumps that cannot be opened by standard tools like Microsoft Excel or text editors. This format locks valuable business intelligence behind a specific software license, complicating data migration, auditing, or third-party analysis. To unlock this data for reporting or archiving, users typically need to convert the internal contents to accessible formats like XLSX for spreadsheets, CSV for database imports, or PDF for static record-keeping. In many cases, simply treating the file as a ZIP archive can reveal the underlying data structures.
Convert.Guru analyzes your MBK file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert MBK file to PDF, BAK, BACKUP, OLD, TMP, TEMP, ARC, ZIP, TAR, GZ, 7Z or RAR, you can use Marg ERP 9+ or similar software from the "Accounting Data Backup" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SNAPSHOT, OLD, IMG, RESTORE, ISO, COPY, VMDK, TMP, VHD, BAK, ARCHIVE or BACKUP files to MBK, try Marg ERP 9+ or another comparable tool in the "Accounting Data Backup" category.
The MBK Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our MBK converter.