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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Going to build a new node.
by
LoyceV
on 04/07/2023, 07:58:24 UTC
So Joyce how would you back up this core offline wallet.
I've been known by many names Cheesy

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3 clones of the ssd would seem to be good to me.

Or am I missing something.
It seems excessive to me.

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clone 3 copies.
I know I could just copy wallet.dat
but I rather have 3 copies of the working drive.
or am I over thinking how to safe guard the wallet.
I'd just copy the wallet.dat, and of course make multiple copies. Password protect the wallet before making a backup, and make backups before funding the wallet. Even better if you actually test restoring one of the backups and verify it produces the same addresses (being thorough gives me peace of mind).
I prefer to use different brands and types of external storage media for my backups, just in case on of the drives/sticks doesn't last long.