Backup neo4j community edition offline in unix: mac or linux

Question

Previously I had a problem when making a \'backup\' as shown in this question where I get an error when trying to restore the database because I did a copy when the database

Answer 1

I also ran into this issue and wrote following two codes:

Make backup of momentary state

service neo4j stop && now=$(date +"%m_%d_%Y") && cd /var/lib/neo4j/data/databases/ && tar -cvzf /var/backups/neo4j/$now.gb.tar.gz graph.db && service neo4j start

• service neo4j stop = stop the neo4j service
• now=$(date +"%m_%d_%Y") = declare the current date as variable
• cd /var/lib/neo4j/data/databases/ = change directories to your neo4j dir where the graph.db is located
• tar -cvzf /var/backups/neo4j/$now.gb.tar.gz graph.db = make a compressed copy of the graph.db and save it to /var/backups/neo4j/$now.gb.tar.gz
• service neo4j start = restart neo4j

Restore neo4j database from a backup

service neo4j stop && cd /var/lib/neo4j/data/databases/ && rm -r graph.db && tar xf /var/backups/neo4j/10_25_2016.gb.tar.gz -C /var/lib/neo4j/data/databases/ && service neo4j start

• service neo4j stop = stop the neo4j service
• cd /var/lib/neo4j/data/databases/ = change directories to your neo4j dir where the graph.db is located
• rm -r graph.db = remove the current graph.db and all its contents
• tar xf /var/backups/neo4j/10_25_2016.gb.tar.gz -C /var/lib/neo4j/data/databases/ = Extract the backup to the directory where the old graph.db was located. Be sure to adjust the filename 10_25_2016.gb.tar.gz to what you called your file
• service neo4j start = restart neo4j

Info: This seems to work for me but as I do not have alot of experience with bash scripting I doubt this is the optimal way. But I think it is understandable and easy to customize :)

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