# Neo4j-admin copy on windows

**URL:** <https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-admin-copy-on-windows/16007>\
**Category:** Operations\
**Tags:** operations\
**Created:** [March 19, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-admin-copy-on-windows/16007 "2020-03-19T01:22:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![mail4mattharrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/mail4mattharrison/32/2762_2.png) [@mail4mattharrison](https://community.neo4j.com/u/mail4mattharrison)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-admin-copy-on-windows/16007/1 "2020-03-19T01:22:50Z")

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Hi,

I've just moved to Neo4j 4 (using 4.0.2), and so was just trying to tidy up my database names. Looking at the docs I thought I would use the 'copy' command from neo4j-admin. I'm running on windows, so I don't know if its different on other platforms, but the admin tool doesn't seem to have the 'copy' command. Did I miss something, or is it not expected to be there?  
I did a dump and load to get what I wanted done, but just thought I'd note that it doesn't look like copy is there.

Cheers,

Matt

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**Author:** ![elaine\_rosenber](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/elaine_rosenber/32/27409_2.png) [@elaine\_rosenber](https://community.neo4j.com/u/elaine_rosenber)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-admin-copy-on-windows/16007/2 "2020-03-19T11:57:14Z")

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Hello Matt,

This is for Enterprise Edition only.

To copy a database in 4.0, within the same instance, you do the following in cypher-shell or Neo4j Browser:

:use system  
stop database

Then you do the following where the target database does not exist:

/usr/bin/neo4j-admin copy --from-database= --to-database=

Then, back in cypher-shell:

:use system  
create database target;

Elaine

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**Author:** ![mail4mattharrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/mail4mattharrison/32/2762_2.png) [@mail4mattharrison](https://community.neo4j.com/u/mail4mattharrison)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-admin-copy-on-windows/16007/3 "2020-03-19T17:28:37Z")

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Ah, ok. I was wondering if it could be an enterprise thing only. But reading the documentation I didn't see any note that copy was enterprise only. So are the docs not quite right then?

Cheers,

Matt