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Four questions about backups and bitcoind
by
chipbike
on 05/02/2014, 23:49:56 UTC
Hi all,

I need some help understanding how to backup a wallet.

1 - I will have a bitcoind daemon running that will generate various addresses each day, because of this I think I will need to do backups every day. Is this correct?

2 - Is "wallet.dat" all I have to backup? I only need to make a copy of this file? $ cp wallet.dat /home/my_user ?

3 - I can make the backups with bitcoind running?

4 - How to restore? Imagine that the server goes away. All I need is to reinstall bitcoind and replace the "wallet.dat" with my backed up "wallet.dat"?

Give me some clues.

Thanks.