How can I view activities from old database backups without having to reimport them?

[directentis1]

I have some backup of Activity Watch many years ago, it's about half of GB (literally .local/share/activitywatch folder)

I'd like to view some of my activities in the past, but currently to view them, the only way is to import all of them to current database which I don't need (and also not reasonable to accumulate all the data)

Currently the only way I have is to import the data into a virtual machine and view everything from there.. but I wonder if anyone has a better way.?
Is it possible to develop a tool to make this more convenient?
Or a more radical way is to directly process the raw database file with a sqlite3 viewer?

[ComfyChloe]

Backup current state, stop process swap it out, view/export what you'd like, restore old (new) backup, Sounds plasuable(?)

[directentis1]

Well, maybe it's the only way :D