neo4j-admin

Manage and administer a Neo4j DBMS (Database Management System). See also: cypher-shell, mysqld. More information: https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/neo4j-admin-neo4j-cli/.

• Start the DBMS:

neo4j-admin server start

• Stop the DBMS:

neo4j-admin server stop

• Set the initial password of the default neo4j user (prerequisite for the first start of the DBMS):

neo4j-admin dbms set-initial-password {{database_name}}

• Create an archive (dump) of an offline database to a file named database_name.dump:

neo4j-admin database dump --to-path={{path/to/directory}} {{database_name}}

• Load a database from an archive named database_name.dump:

neo4j-admin database load --from-path={{path/to/directory}} {{database_name}} --overwrite-destination=true

• Load a database from a specified archive file through stdin:

neo4j-admin database load --from-stdin {{database_name}} --overwrite-destination=true < {{path/to/filename.dump}}

• Display help:

neo4j-admin --help