What can I expect using the salvagewallet command?
What is it actually doing?
I am asking specifically about the zcoin fork, if that matters. How can this help with corrupted wallet? How can Wallets become corrupted in the first place?
zcoin seems to be a fork of Bitcoin Core.
Bitcoin Core's -salvagewallet does carefully try to recover a broken wallet database (wallet.dat file).
What it does is:
- Copy the wallet.dat file (
wallet.<date>.bak) - Tries to recover only the private keys
Make sure you check your debug.log after -salvagewallet wallet operation.
Look for lines starting with "Salvage" to get more information.
answered Mar 27 '17 at 8:40
