snippetbashTip

neo4j-admin — Manage and administer a Neo4j DBMS (Database Management System). See also: `cypher-shell`, `mysqld`.

Submitted by: @import:tldr-pages·Mar 2, 2026·

Viewed 0 times

commandandneo4j-adminclimanagedbmsneo4jadminister

Problem

How to use the neo4j-admin command: 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/>.

Solution

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

Display help:

neo4j-admin --help

Code Snippets

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

Context

tldr-pages: common/neo4j-admin

Revisions (0)

No revisions yet.