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.
Neo4j Community Edition includes the following commands:
- Check database consistency — How to check the consistency of a database, backup, or a dump.
- 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.
In the Neo4j Enterprise Edition, the following commands are available in addition to those in the Community Edition:
- 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.
- Restore a database backup — How to restore a database backup in a live Neo4j deployment.
- Copy a database store — How to copy data store from an existing database to a new database.
- Infinigraph Validate a sharded property database backup — How to validate a sharded property database backup using the neo4j-admin backup validate command.