I copied ravendb database folder from following hard drive location
Db backup\Database\Databases\cities
where cities is name of the database. inside this folder there is following files and folders
Data file should contains db data I need, it's pretty big in size.
Since in the meantime I install new windows I reinstall same version of ravendb server (RavenDB-Build-2935) and try to simply trough ravendb server interface to create cities db and copy whole folder into
C:\RavenDB-Build-2935\Server\Database\Databases
Following error is occured when raven server is executed:
Couldn't open database named: cities One or more errors occured.
p.s. I'm aware that I'm not exported db as normal but I'm trying to find a way to import this data somehow back into db since I do have backup of Data file (which should have data needed to restore db, I hope :)).
Have you tried using the Raven Smuggler command line tool? It is designed for restoring backups.
What you're trying to do, just xcopy a database from another machine, isn't likely to work. If you read the Raven Smuggler documentation, there's a big warning at the top of the page:
"Copying Data folder between servers or even within a single server instance is not supported and can result in various server errors."
Just use Smuggler instead.