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Neo4j backups, natively.

Community Edition: a short, journaled stop, a dump of the database and of system (users and roles), then a start — in your maintenance window. Enterprise Edition: an online backup.

What Xtic runs

neo4j-admin
neo4j-admin database dump neo4j --to-stdout

Shown with placeholders. Credentials never appear on a command line: they reach the tool through the environment, a file descriptor or a short-lived file in memory.

Restore paths

  • Stop, neo4j-admin database load, start
  • Enterprise: neo4j-admin database restore, then CREATE or START DATABASE

Verification

Dump metadata read back with neo4j-admin; consistency check in deep verification. Every artifact is also hashed, and the stored copy is read back and compared before the run counts as verified.

Version rule

The tool always comes from the server's own image; never restore to an older version.

Good to know

  • Community backups need a maintenance window
  • Licence and editions: Online backup is Enterprise only; Community uses the offline dump.

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