RavenDB Open source 2nd generation document DB

RavenDB is a great piece of technology and had a very positive impact on our workflow. The dedicated and very professional support of the core team really makes a difference.

Federico Lois, Founder, Corvalius
As a Document DB it remains true to the core principles of these type of storage mechanisms. Somehow it manages to combine the best of relational databases with that of document databases.

Hadi Hariri, JetBrains

Exporting and Importing data

To export or import data from a RavenDB server use the Raven.Smuggler utility that comes with the distrubution or nuget packages. It is located under the /Tools folder.

Using the Smuggler utility is necessary when trying to move a RavenDB Data folder around between servers. Simply copying it is not supported and can result in server errors.

Exporting

To Export data, use this command:

Raven.Smuggler out http://localhost:8080 dump.raven

This command will export all indexes and documents from the local RavenDB instance to a file named dump.raven.

The dump file will also include documents that were added during the export process, so you can make changes while the export is executing.

Specifying --only-indexes in the command line will export only the index definitions. To include attachments as well (might result in larger export file), specify --include-attachments.

Importing

Raven.Smuggler in http://localhost:8080 dump.raven

This command will import all the indexes and documents from the file to the local instance.

This will overwrite any existing document on the local instance.

You can continue using that RavenDB instance while data is being imported to it.

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