XBK Converter

Extract text from XBK files

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How to extract text from your XBK file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your XBK file.
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Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert XBK to another file type

To convert your XBK file to another format, you need EcoStruxure Building Operation or other Backup software.

Convert a file to XBK

To convert other file formats to the "System Configuration Archive" file type, you need software like EcoStruxure Building Operation or a similar tool.

About XBK files

The .XBK file extension is a source of confusion because it serves two completely different industries: building automation and education. Most commonly, it is a proprietary backup archive generated by Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure Building Operation software. These files contain critical server databases, logs, and configuration settings required to restore an Automation Server. While technically structured as compressed containers (often ZIP based), they are designed for machine restoration rather than human reading, making them impossible to open with standard text editors.

Alternatively, users in the education sector may encounter .XBK files as legacy resource banks from Promethean Activstudio or early SMART Notebook software. The friction here is significant: these are often proprietary binary formats that modern computers treat as unknown files, locking valuable lesson plans or whiteboard assets behind obsolete software requirements.

Conversion Recommendations:

For Schneider Backups: If you need to inspect the contents without restoring the server, change the extension to ZIP and extract the internal XML configuration files. For archiving, keep the original format to ensure data integrity during restoration.
For Education/Whiteboard Files: The goal is usually accessibility. Convert these files to PDF for printable handouts or static archiving. If you need to edit the content, try importing them into newer software like ActivInspire or Lumio, though layout formatting is often lost in translation.

Convert.Guru analyzes your XBK file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted NOTEBOOK, PDF, GALLERYITEM and SV2I files.

FAQ

If you want to convert XBK file to BAK, BACKUP, OLD, TMP, TEMP, ARC, ZIP, TAR, GZ, 7Z, RAR or ISO, you can use EcoStruxure Building Operation or similar software from the "Automation Server 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 XBK, try EcoStruxure Building Operation or another comparable tool in the "Automation Server Backup" category.

The XBK 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 XBK converter.