Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PBD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PBD to another file type
To convert PBD backup files to another format, you need Appeon PowerBuilder or other Developer software.
Convert a file to PBD
To convert other file formats to the "Dynamic Library / Backup Image" file type, you need software like Appeon PowerBuilder or a similar tool.
About PBD files
The .PBD file extension primarily represents a PowerBuilder Dynamic Library used by enterprise developers, or a proprietary disk partition backup created by EaseUS Todo Backup. In the enterprise development context, .PBD files store compiled application objects dynamically referenced by a main executable. In the consumer space, .PBD files are massive archival containers holding byte-level snapshots of computer hard drives. To open or interact with these files, you must use either Appeon PowerBuilder for developer libraries, or EaseUS Todo Backup for system images. Users typically want to extract the contents of these files rather than perform a direct file-to-file conversion. The major disadvantage of the .PBD format is its strictly proprietary nature. It is a closed ecosystem. Standard operating systems and web browsers cannot natively mount or read them. EaseUS backups are often hundreds of gigabytes in size, making them difficult to transfer or manage without the original software, which often requires a paid license. PowerBuilder libraries are compiled binaries that obscure the original source code, making debugging difficult outside the IDE. If you need the data inside, the ideal target workflow is extracting the raw files. For backups, mounting the image allows extraction of standard PDF, JPG, or DOCX files. For developers, reverse-engineering tools attempt to decompile .PBD back to human-readable PBL (PowerBuilder Library) source files, though variable names and comments are usually permanently lost. Because .PBD is heavily proprietary and often enormous, standard online converters completely fail to process it. Only the original software can reliably read or export the internal data. However, just drag and drop your file to convert.guru to identify the format. We will inspect the internal structure, differentiate a small application library from a large disk image header, and show readable text or metadata. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or partial conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PBD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PBD file to ISO, VMDK, VHD, BAK, BACKUP, OLD, TMP, TEMP, ARC, ZIP, TAR or GZ, you can use Appeon PowerBuilder or similar software from the "Compiled Library or Disk 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 PBD, try Appeon PowerBuilder or another comparable tool in the "Compiled Library or Disk Backup" category.
The PBD 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 PBD converter.