neo4j: backup and restore data

I have a single node neo4j instance(redhat OS based VM) running.
Any easier way to backup data and export it to neo4j instance running in another VM?

I tried zipping the data/database/neo4j folder on source VM and unzipping it on destination VM. But, getting errors while starting neo4j.

> java.lang.RuntimeException: Mismatching store id. Store StoreId:
> StoreId{creationTime=1676271868772, randomId=5465786452791406693,
> storeVersion=3471768636287762695, upgradeTime=1676271868772,
> upgradeTxId=1}. Transaction log StoreId:
> StoreId{creationTime=1683789569809, randomId=-7569579037412136217,
> storeVersion=3471768636287762695, upgradeTime=1683789569809,
> upgradeTxId=1}

Any thoughts/other approaches are welcome!

You can use the dump command of the neo4j-admin command-line interface. Make sure that your database is offline before running this command. The command is like this:

neo4j-admin database dump <database-name>

This will create a <database-name>.dump file. This will be created in the folder pointed by the setting server.directories.dumps.root.

For more options, you can refer to this documentation.

Similarly, you restore this dump using the command neo4j-admin database load. Here's the documentation for the load command.

Alternatively, if you want to back up the data while it is online, use the command neo4j-admin database backup. This command generates a bunch of files known as artifacts, which can be combined to form one single artifact file using the command neo4j-admin database aggregate-backup. To restore these artifacts files use the command neo4j-admin database restore.

Refer to these documentations:

Online Backup

Aggregate backup chains

Restore Backup