diff --git a/bin/importSqlFile.js b/bin/importSqlFile.js
index faf6b1b9..6463088a 100644
--- a/bin/importSqlFile.js
+++ b/bin/importSqlFile.js
@@ -3,7 +3,17 @@ var startTime = new Date().getTime();
 require("ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/npm").load({}, function(er,npm) {
 
   var fs = require("fs");
-  var db = require("ep_etherpad-lite/node/db/DB");;
+
+  var ueberDB = require("ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/ueberDB");
+  var settings = require("ep_etherpad-lite/node/utils/Settings");
+  var log4js = require('ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/log4js');
+
+  var dbWrapperSettings = {
+    cache: 0,
+    writeInterval: 100,
+    json: false // data is already json encoded
+  };
+  var db = new ueberDB.database(settings.dbType, settings.dbSettings, dbWrapperSettings, log4js.getLogger("ueberDB"));
 
   var sqlFile = process.argv[2];
 
@@ -15,39 +25,85 @@ require("ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/npm").load({}, function(er,npm) {
   }
 
   log("initializing db");
-  db.init(function(){
-    log("done");
+  db.init(function(err)
+  {
+    //there was an error while initializing the database, output it and stop
+    if(err)
+    {
+      console.error("ERROR: Problem while initalizing the database");
+      console.error(err.stack ? err.stack : err);
+      process.exit(1);
+    }
+    else
+    {
+      log("done");
 
-    log("open output file...");
-    var lines = fs.readFileSync(sqlFile, 'utf8').split("\n");;
+      log("open output file...");
+      var lines = fs.readFileSync(sqlFile, 'utf8').split("\n");
 
-    var count = lines.length;
-    var keyNo = 0;
+      var count = lines.length;
+      var keyNo = 0;
 
-    process.stdout.write("Start importing " + count + " keys...\n");
-    lines.forEach(function(l) {
-      if (l.substr(0, 27) == "REPLACE INTO store VALUES (") {
-        var pos = l.indexOf("', '");
-        var key = l.substr(28, pos - 28);
-        var value = l.substr(pos + 4);
-        value = value.substr(0, value.length - 3);
-        db.db.set(key, value, null);
-        keyNo++;
-        if (keyNo % 1000 == 0) {
-          process.stdout.write(" " + keyNo + "/" + count + "\n");
+      process.stdout.write("Start importing " + count + " keys...\n");
+      lines.forEach(function(l) {
+        if (l.substr(0, 27) == "REPLACE INTO store VALUES (") {
+          var pos = l.indexOf("', '");
+          var key = l.substr(28, pos - 28);
+          var value = l.substr(pos + 3);
+          value = value.substr(0, value.length - 2);
+          console.log("key: " + key + " val: " + value);
+          console.log("unval: " + unescape(value));
+          db.set(key, unescape(value), null);
+          keyNo++;
+          if (keyNo % 1000 == 0) {
+            process.stdout.write(" " + keyNo + "/" + count + "\n");
+          }
         }
-      }
-    });
-    process.stdout.write("\n");
+      });
+      process.stdout.write("\n");
 
-    db.db.doShutdown(function() {
-      log("finished, imported " + keyNo + " keys.");
-      process.exit(0);
-    });
+      db.doShutdown(function() {
+        log("finished, imported " + keyNo + " keys.");
+        process.exit(0);
+      });
+    }
   });
 });
 
 function log(str)
 {
   console.log((new Date().getTime() - startTime)/1000 + "\t" + str);
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
+
+unescape = function(val) {
+  // value is a string
+  if (val.substr(0, 1) == "'") {
+    val = val.substr(0, val.length - 1).substr(1);
+
+    return val.replace(/\\[0nrbtZ\\'"]/g, function(s) {
+      switch(s) {
+        case "\\0": return "\0";
+        case "\\n": return "\n";
+        case "\\r": return "\r";
+        case "\\b": return "\b";
+        case "\\t": return "\t";
+        case "\\Z": return "\x1a";
+        default: return s.substr(1);
+      }
+    });
+  }
+
+  // value is a boolean or NULL
+  if (val == 'NULL') {
+    return null;
+  }
+  if (val == 'true') {
+    return true;
+  }
+  if (val == 'false') {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  // value is a number
+  return val;
+};