Backup and restore

This chapter describes the following:

• Backup and restore planning — What to consider when designing your backup and restore strategy.

• Backup modes — The supported backup modes.

• Back up an online database — How to back up an online database.

• Aggregate a database backup chain - How to aggregate a backup chain into a single backup.

• Inspect the metadata of a database backup file — How to inspect the metadata of a database backup file.

• Check database consistency — How to check the consistency of a database, backup, or a dump.

• Restore a database backup — How to restore a database backup in a live Neo4j deployment.

• Back up an offline database — How to back up an offline database.

• Restore a database dump — How to restore a database dump in a live Neo4j deployment.

• Copy a database store — How to copy data store from an existing database to a new database.