Hi, this is super simple for a non-aura setup using the APOC apoc.export.query function however, that's disabled on Neo4j-Aura due to security reasons (from what I read). What I need to do: Export data/sub-graph from Neo4j Aura Import data to local neo4j Consider the following graph. [example-g…

Unfortunately, relationship data isn't necessarily preserved in the CSV format, so regenerating a graph from it does take some work. However, in the time since this thread was started, we've created a new method of exporting your data as a backup dump. For now, that process requires a help ticket in…

Hey there, Have you tried exporting your Aura database as a stream using these steps ? You'll need to use the Neo4j Desktop app and not the Aura browser for your connection, as you need to have access to a local disk to save the stream. But the connection process in the browser inside Desktop is the…

Hi Cory, I got the same error as with other 'export' apoc functions: Failed to invoke procedure apoc.export.csv.graph: Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Export to files not enabled, please set apoc.export.file.enabled=true in your neo4j.conf I did try and change the config with :config 'apoc…

Hi, Make sure you're passing {stream: true} to the call to APOC. I see you've opened a case in our support portal, so I'll follow up there, too. Cory

[image] cory.waddingham: APOC. Thanks Cory! We worked more through support email and it seems that virtual graph doesn't handle this quite well and produces duplicate data. Looks like a got a file out of it now. So the solution looks like this so far: MATCH (n1)-[r]-() WITH collect(distinc…

We would like to do a similar thing with our Aura cluster, but I got lost trying to follow the logic of this thread: we can connect to the remote Aura cluster from Neo4j Desktop, by providing the address and credentials from there, the apoc.export.csv.* functions cannot accept a CSV filename a…

Hi Terry, To export the data you'll need to download it. Run the query in the browser, then hover over the icon in the upper right corner that looks like an arrow pointing down at a line. You'll get a menu to choose Export to CSV or Export to JSON. Either one will download a file you can then use l…

Thanks Cory. I guess returning the data and exporting it to CSV as a second step means there is a relative ceiling on how much data can be copied in this way e.g feeding in (n)-[r]-(n) from a large graph is unlikely to scale well?

There is, though I'm not sure where the ceiling lays. I've successfully done this with graphs with thousands of nodes; anything more than that, and you'd probably want to add in LIMIT and SKIP calls to break up the work (as one example, there are other ways to skin that cat). Cory

[image] cory.waddingham: is, though I'm not sure where the ceiling lays. I've successfully done this with graphs with thousands of nodes; anything more than that, and you'd probably want to add in LIMIT and SKIP calls to break up the work (a Hi @cory.waddingham What's the most practical w…

Hi Anthony, We can export a dump of your database and make it available to you, that's definitely the easiest way to move your Aura database to an enterprise cluster. There isn't currently a way to purposefully run a backup, nor is there a point in time recovery per se. But there is a way you can …

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Hi Cory,

I've finally gotten around to play around with this CSV file.

I can access the file from my local. That's me showing it has 2 lines:

However, all the examples I'm seeing in the Importing CSV guide. Are having me parse the data manually and then specify the node/relationship structure (essentially schema) of my entire graph

LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM 'file:///data.csv' AS row
MERGE (c:Company {companyId: row.Id, hqLocation: coalesce(row.Location, "Unknown")})

I was hoping since this was generated from neo4j, there would be an easy native way to import the data that it itself has generated. Please advise.

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