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novalagung

Reputation: 11502

neo4j dump error: database does not exist

I'm new to neo4j.

I have created a new graph/database named db-learning. I'm able to connect and perform some operations on the database via neo4j browser. No issue at all.

However when I tried to dump it using neo4j-admin dump --database "db-learning" --to "/some/path" I get this error saying database not found.

Database does not exist: db-learning

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Am I missing something?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2747

Answers (2)

ian
ian

Reputation: 89

Getting the same issue when neo4j is in fact an existing DB. I don't know how the N4J team managed to overcomplicate this so much but this whole process is such a nightmare.

The Aura service only accepts .dump files, which have to be generated via neo4j-admin. This won't allow remote DBs so you have to pull down a neo4j directory (for instance, from a graphenedb.com dump), load it locally, then export that via neo4j-admin -> dump file in order to upload and import into a Aura instance.

Has anyone at Neo4j actually used their own software?

Upvotes: 2

Michael Hunger
Michael Hunger

Reputation: 41686

Sorry if that's confusing. The database name in the project is not related to the underlying database name (which is neo4j for the default database)

So if you open the terminal, this should be good enough:

./bin/neo4j-admin dump --database "neo4j" --to "/tmp/test.dump"

I think you can also leave off the default database name.

Upvotes: 4

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