Back up an offline database
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Command
A Neo4j database can be backed up in offline mode using the dump
command of neo4j-admin
.
Example
The following is an example of how to create a dump of the default database neo4j
, called neo4j-<timestamp>.dump, using the neo4j-admin dump
command.
The target directory /dumps/neo4j must exist before running the command and the database must be offline.
bin/neo4j-admin dump --database=neo4j --to=/dumps/neo4j/neo4j-<timestamp>.dump