How to migrate or export system database from 4.4 to 5.2?

I'm trying to get our databases migrated from 4.4 Enterprise to 5.2 enterprise but I ran into an issue when trying to migrate the system database from a backup. Initially I tried to simply restore it and discovered you can't just stop the system database. So, after quite a bit of digging I found the command to unbind ./bin/neo4j-admin dbms unbind-system-db which allowed me to restore it, but once I did that I couldn't migrate it with the following error message - "Unsupported migration path for system database" which I could not find a resolution for googling.

We have several databases that will need to be migrated with users for each. Is there a way to export the data I need from my 4.4 system db and import it into the 5.2 system db? Or is there a guide I missed somewhere for how to migrate the system db?

@wronsti

As this is an Neo4j Enterprise edition if you have a Enterprise subscription this may be best served by opening a support ticket at support.neo4j.com, which is where Enterprise paying customers get support

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