[FIXED] How to migrate/shift/copy/move data in Neo4j

Issue

Does any one know how to migrate data from one instance of Neo4j to another. To be more precise, I want to know, how to move the data from one instance of Neo4j on my local machine to another on remote machine. Does any one have any idea about it.

I'm working on my windows machine with Eclipse and Embedded Neo4j . I need to transfer this data to remote Neo4j instance on a Centos machine. Please help me with this.

Solution

I found out the following workaround for copying the data from a server in the cluster to all others, after using the neo4j-import tool:

1. Stop all nodes.

2. On the new node/server, where you need your data to be copied, you have to create the database folder for that graph (in my case loadTest): /neo4j-enterprise-3.1.0/data/databases/loadTest.db

3. Then, the source node/server that is holding the data, you have to copy here the neostore.id file to the destination server db folder (loadTest.db from the previous step).

4. Start all nodes. In the background neo4j will copy data from other cluster servers to the new node.

Answered By - SomeDev2017

Answer Checked By - Mary Flores (PHPFixing Volunteer)