An important difference between the dump and backup commands is that backup can be run while the Neo4j instance is live. For dump to run, the instance must be stopped. Therefore, the first step to taking a backup with the Neo4j Community Edition is to stop Neo4j:
bin/neo4j stop
Stopping Neo4j.. stopped
Next, we will run the following commands from the neo4j-admin tool:
mkdir /backups/astronaut.db-backup/ bin/neo4j-admin dump --database=graph.db --to=backups/astronaut.db-backup/2017-09-11.dump
bin/neo4j start
The backup directory must exist before the dump command is run.
Before getting into the load functionality, let's create a new node for the ISS-53/54 (Soyuz) mission. From within Neo4j Browser, ...
