Can I use an Aura snapshot to import it as a local db in my Desktop app

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Hi,

we have an Aura db running and I am interested if I can create a snapshot and take this to create a local DB using Neo4j Desktop.
Maybe there is a better way of doing it, but I think I cannot do an export otherwise.
Is there a solution?

Thanks

2

have you tried:

CALL apoc.export.cypher.all(null, {stream: true})
3

Yes, and I get a lot of queries. When I want so save/download the button gets locked for some seconds and thats it. It seems that the system can't handle this amount of data.
Any ideas?

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If you have too much data, you're probably having to deal neo4j to get a dump ...

You could try to create a python script to run that code and save it to a file (rather than fetching it from the browser that will probably struggle) - not sure if this will work:

from neo4j import GraphDatabase

driver = GraphDatabase.driver("bolt+s://<your-aura-uri>", auth=("username", "password"))

with driver.session() as session:
    result = session.run("CALL apoc.export.cypher.all(null, {stream: true})")
    for record in result:
        print(record["n"])
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@frank.wolter1

Yes. However I expect your AuraDB instance is running Neo4j v2025.05.0 or similar and as such you will want to import into Desktop and a similar versioned Neo4j database. However to build out a local db instance on Neo4j Desktop running v2025.05.0 you will need to install Neo4j Desktop 2 and not the 1.6 series Neo4j Deployment Center - Graph Database & Analytics

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See Database management - Neo4j Desktop for more details

6

Thank you very much!

That was a good hint to use Desktop 2.0. I guess that will do the trick.

Thanks

7

Creating a snapshot, exporting (downloading) and importing in a local database with Desktop 2.0 went smooth, but....

Instead of millions of nodes I have now 29 in my local db.
What did I wrong?

Best regards