Quote from: Foxpup on May 21, 2014, 01:13:07 PM

there is normally absolutely no need for a rescan when restoring a wallet backup.

Really?

Odd. I thought a rescan was often necessary after restoring a backup. I'll have to search through threads and see if I can find evidence of that.

EDIT:
Ok, I suspect that the reason I thought a -rescan might be necessary was because I had previously read some of these posts (and others like them):

Quote from: Abdussamad on November 16, 2013, 09:38:38 PM

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Place the November 7th backup in place and try the rescan.

Quote from: gweedo on September 01, 2012, 06:21:46 PM

just replace the wallet.dat file in the bitcoin folder with the backed up version, then use -rescan

Quote from: deMangler on May 06, 2011, 11:29:22 PM

Yes, a rescan has solved the problem.
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Quote from: Binford 6100 on May 21, 2011, 09:26:48 AM

just copy back and spend

might be good idea to start the bitcoin client with the -rescan switch
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Quote from: Raoul Duke on August 21, 2012, 04:29:12 AM

Do a rescan.
Start it from the command line with the -rescan option.
Also, make sure you have your most recent wallet.dat on the data folder.

Quote from: Pieter Wuille on June 01, 2011, 10:24:46 AM

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Restoring of a wallet backup is supported since 0.3.20 with -rescan
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Quote from: deepceleron on March 25, 2013, 10:36:50 AM

You can simply rename the wallet.dat on your current Bitcoin installation, and temporarily put a copy of this old backup wallet.dat there. When you launch bitcoin with the -rescan option, it will update the wallet to show the correct balance.
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Quote from: defxor on August 28, 2011, 03:15:53 PM

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the client can become confused when you start switching keyrings back and forth is not a problem - just run -rescan.

Quote from: Oldgamer on September 25, 2013, 03:20:54 AM

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Whenever you copied your wallet from backup place, you should start bitcoin-qt with rescan option:
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Quote from: CIYAM on November 02, 2012, 12:48:14 AM

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So assuming that you using the backup of the encrypted wallet and that no errors are occurring you might need to run bitcoin with the -rescan option.

Quote from: Stephen Gornick on November 02, 2012, 12:54:34 AM

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So the old backup could still have some or all of the coins yet.

Of course, the encrypted wallet should not be missing anything, so like CIYAM suggested, -rescan
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