How to recover redis data from snapshot(rdb file) copied from another machine?

Question

I transferred my redis snapshot (dump.rdb file) using scp to a remote server. I need to run a redis server on this remote and recover the data from the

Answer 1

Assuming that you run Redis 2.6 or higher, your Redis snapshot filename is dump.rdb, and it exists in the directory /home/user/dbs, the following command would do the trick:

redis-server --dbfilename dump.rdb --dir /home/user/dbs

Relevant section from the official documentation: Passing arguments via the command line