How can I upgrade Neo4j 2.2.0 to 2.2.1?

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Even after following the advice in one of the comments here (Create on NOT MATCH command for Neo4j's CQL?) to set allow_store_upgrade to true in conf/neo4j.properties, I was not able to successfully upgrade to 2.2.1

The documentation does not explain how to here either: http://neo4j.com/docs/2.2.1/deployment-upgrading.html

Can anyone shed light on this?

What do you mean by I was not able to upgrade ? Is the database not starting, any messages.log you can share ? Normally you should just copy your graph.db folder into the new 2.2.1 — Christophe Willemsen, Apr 27 '15 at 18:52
I see no evidence in localhost:7474 or in the console.log that it upgrade to 2.2.1. Which log are you talking about? — NumenorForLife, Apr 27 '15 at 19:58
so your 2.2.1 database is running ? The $neo4j_home/data/graph.db/messages.log file — Christophe Willemsen, Apr 27 '15 at 20:12
I'm not seeing any occurrences of 2.2.1 in the messages.log file — NumenorForLife, Apr 27 '15 at 20:13
did you moved the store files to the new neo4j 2.2.1 directory. If yes it is sufficient. allow_store_upgrade is for non-automatic store upgrades. 2.2.0 -> 2.2.1 is safe automatic store upgrade — Christophe Willemsen, Apr 27 '15 at 20:18

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 27 '15 at 21:19

I answered this just now in the other thread, but it's good to have it out there so people can search for it. Whenever you upgrade an instance of Neo4j you need to:

Download the new version
Copy the data/graph.db folder from the old location to the new location (make sure all servers are shut down first)
Set allow_store_upgrade to true in the new instance
Start up the server (at start up, the data in the data/graph.db folder will be updated to the format required for the new version

How can I upgrade Neo4j 2.2.0 to 2.2.1?

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