Neo4j-admin restore remote/over the network

Neo4j Graph Platform Operations
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Hello everyone,

I am having a hard time restoring a single database on a Neo4j standalone 4.4.17 enterprise instance, running in a AKS k8s cluster. Unfortunately I am not allowed by policies to exec into the Pod running the Neo4j itself, but I am in full control over all k8s resources I have created. So my workflow until now was to create k8s Jobs which fulfil all tasks I needed. My question:

Is there a way to restore an online database over network/remotely? I have been able to create backups from a k8s Job I have created, but I am not able to restore backups remotely. Got my own backup scripts in a custom image by now like this:

create_backup_neo4j() {
    # https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/4.4/backup-restore/prepare-restore/
    echo "+++ START: CREATING NEO4j BACKUP +++"
    mkdir -p ${BACKUP_PATH}
    neo4j-admin backup \
        --backup-dir=${BACKUP_PATH} \
        --verbose \
        --from="${NEO4J_ADMIN_SERVICE_HOST}:${NEO4J_ADMIN_SERVICE_PORT}" \
        --database="${NEO4J_DB_TO_BACKUP}" \
        --check-consistency=true \
        --check-graph=true \
        --check-indexes=true \
        --check-index-structure=true \
        --include-metadata="all" \
        --prepare-restore=true \
        --parallel-recovery=false
    echo "+++ END: CREATING NEO4J BACKUP +++"
}

Restore:

restore_neo4j_backup_azure() {
    stop_database
    echo "+++ START: IMPORT NEO4J BACKUP FROM AZURE +++"
    chown neo4j: -R /restore/backup/
    neo4j-admin restore \
        --from="${RESTORE_PATH}/${NEO4J_RESTORE_PATTERN%?}" \
        --database="$(echo "${NEO4J_RESTORE_PATTERN}" | cut -f3 -d'/')" \
        --verbose \
        --force
    restore_neo4j_metadata
    start_database
    echo "+++ END: IMPORT NEO4J BACKUP FROM AZURE +++"
}

I assume my restore fails silently since my restore Pod is separated from Neo4J Pod and the neo4j-admin restore Binary expects to run Neo4J on local machine, right? So question is, can I restore a remote Neo4J instance over network without being logged in into the Neo4J instance itself?

Cheers,
Szop