Backing up and restoring Couchdb database

lamspc wrote on Monday, September 30, 2013:

Does anyone have any experience is backing up and restoring a couchdb database?

I have been able to backup a couchdb database using the couchdb-dump command, but have not been able to restore it. I tried using the couchdb-load commad for restore of the dump file, but could not overcome a persistent failure “Value error: Data integrity test failed”
I use debian 7, couchdb (ver 0.11.0) database to a new box (couchdb ver 1.2.1).
Any suggestions welcome
Paul