Guide for V0.12.0 nodes updating to v0.12.1.6 in servers like Vultr or VPS.ag

First of all, if you have not already stop your old node, it's time to stop it.


Let's update our server after that


It's time to download the new distro


Now we unpack it


And start the new node:


Funny thing, in my nodes at least I didn't recieve the rpcuser and rpcpassword usual error message of the first turn on of the node, so I have to push ctrl+c and enter to exit from node execution 

Now we have to configure the new eternity.conf file


We include the usual info:

--> We can copy the priv key from our eternitynode.conf file in the controller wallet or go to the folder .eternity and copy from the old eternity.conf file. Also we can use Winscp or a similar program to directly copy the old file in the new .eternitycore folder.

Let's start our node:


See if everything is working


And made some cleaning from old instalation and tar archives if neccesary:


We can also erase the old eternity blockchain folder .eternity, but I forgot about it 

FInally we wait to have downloaded all the chain (it ususally is a very fast download), go to the console, restart the node with eternitynode start-alias and go to our node to check if the eternitynode is correctly started with:


And that's all. If you detect any mistake, please, post it to update the guide.

Salute

Ahhh, tip jar if you have some eternity to give away   

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