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Emphasize in docs that in clustering environments, when using incremental import the updated database must be reseeded (neo4j#2093)
Co-authored-by: NataliaIvakina <[email protected]>
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modules/ROOT/pages/tools/neo4j-admin/neo4j-admin-import.adoc

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=== Usage and limitations
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[WARNING]
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The importer works well on standalone servers.
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In clustering environments with multiple copies of the database, the updated database must be used as a source to reseed the rest of the database copies.
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You can use the procedure xref:procedures.adoc#procedure_dbms_cluster_recreateDatabase[`dbms.cluster.recreateDatabase()`].
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For details, see xref:clustering/databases.adoc#recreate-databases[Recreate databases].
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Starting the clustered database after an incremental import without reseeding or performing the incremental import on a single server while the database remains online on other clustered members may result in unpredictable consequences, including data inconsistency between cluster members.
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The incremental import command can be used to add:
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* New nodes with labels and properties.
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* Update or delete labels in nodes.
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* Delete existing nodes and relationships.
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The importer works well on standalone servers.
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In clustering environments with multiple copies of the database, the updated database must be reseeded.
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=== Parameters
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.`neo4j-admin database import incremental` parameters

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