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floatingpurr
floatingpurr

Reputation: 8559

Neo4j 3.0.1, proper way to restore backup by copying binary files (graph.db)

I am running neo4j v.3.0.1 and I want to restore an old backup (of another version of neo4j) by moving the old graph.db directory.

In my neo4j.conf I have:

# Paths of directories in the installation.
dbms.directories.data=/var/lib/neo4j/data
# Enable this to be able to upgrade a store from an older version.
dbms.allow_format_migration=true

If copy graph.db in /var/lib/neo4j/data, the restore does not work, but a new folder called graph.db is automatically created in /var/lib/neo4j/databases after I start the service.

If I copy the backup folder directly in /var/lib/neo4j/data/databases, the restore is successful. I do not understand why, since I set dbms.directories.data=/var/lib/neo4j/data

Am I doing something wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 279

Answers (1)

Stefan Armbruster
Stefan Armbruster

Reputation: 39915

The databases is implicitly appended to the dbms.directories.data path. That is a change in 3.0.

Upvotes: 2

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