Our enterprise edition comes with an online back-up tool that does both full and incremental back-ups: http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/stable/re04.html
For the the community edition, you can do the copying-and-zipping dance, but you have to shut the database down first. Otherwise the changes to the store files can get out of sync with what the transaction logs think is committed, which means the back-up you get is a database that cannot be recovered.. -- Chris Vest System Engineer, Neo Technology [ skype: mr.chrisvest, twitter: chvest ] On 16 Jul 2014, at 19:59, Sourabh Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote: > To Neo4j greatest minds: > > Is there any tried and tested way of doing regular backup of neo4j? I tried > manual copying and zipping but that results to non-clean DB state. > > Can anyone share the command or steps to have a clean DB state that can be > used for Backup. > > Can existing non-clean db state be cleaned somehow? i tried running > neo4j-shell but with no success. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Neo4j" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Neo4j" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
