Questions tagged [backup]
The process of copying one or more files to an alternate location for safekeeping. Typically refers to the copying of Bitcoin's wallet.dat file but may also refer to the built-in JSON API command to perform such a backup.
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What are 'accounts.sqlite3' and 'emergency.recover' and why might I want to back them up?
accounts.sqlite3 and emergency.recover are created in my ~/.lightning/bitcoin when I launch lightningd - they weren't created there some years ago. What are accounts.sqlite3 and emergency.recover and ...
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Can 2-of-3 multisig funds be recovered without one of the xpubs?
In a 2-of-3 multisig, the address list is derived from the combination of the three xpub keys. What happens if you lose one of the keys and its xpub?
Technically, you'd be able to sign transactions. ...
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How can I restore my wallet?
I just purchased a new laptop and I want to decommission my old one. I have a back-up of my wallet.dat file copied to my new PC. What do I need to do to restore it to my Bitcoin (Windows) client? ...
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Bitcoin Core Offline Reinstallation
It is possible to reinstall Bitcoin Core Offline? I copied all the files to my external HDD. I use Ubuntu. Thanks
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Does bitcoin core save the seed in a brand new descriptor wallet when it gets created?
When I create a brand new descriptor wallet in Bitoin Core 24.x, does it save the seed anywhere, and if so, can I export/import it?
I understand that exporting descriptors only is not the same as ...
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Lost wallet problem: I have a 240 byte file from a 2013 wallet. Can I access bitcoin with this?
I lost the device with my Android Bitcoin Wallet late 2013. At the time, I had stored a 'wallet backup' file. It has no extension, is 240 bytes, and begins with 'U'.
With only that file, is it ...
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How do I backup wallet for first time
I tried to send Crypto to my brand new digital wallet. I was informed I must backup wallet first. How do I back up my digital wallet for first use?
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Descriptor Wallets are way more confusing than legacy [duplicate]
how do you dump backup into a json file?
then how do you load the json file into backup?
" How to create the descriptors wallet? createwallet("my_wallet",
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Why isn't the backed up sqlite3 exactly same as the lightningd.sqlite3?
In the backing up page of C-Lightning, it says:
The main and backup files will not be identical at every byte, but they will still contain the same data.
Is there any specific reason this happens? ...
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Is it possible to make a paper wallet out of a bitcoin-qt wallet?
I have a single bitcoin address with all my savings on it. I want to make a paper backup for precaution (as if my hard drive somehow exploded) with that specific address. Is that possible?
Keep in ...
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Is spitting a BIP39 seed phrase in half meaningly less secure than splitting the entropy in half?
One way to create a distribution, 2-of-3 backup of your seed phrase ABC is to store the following in three separate places:
AB
BC
CA
Any two of these lists is sufficient to reconstructed the entire ...
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Easier way of backing up/remembering a bitcoin private key
This is a bit of a general question, knowing already of HD wallets and the mnemonic system for creating, backing-up and using the bitcoin blockchain.
However say you have for example a cold/paper ...
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How does bitcoin wallet's backup restore forwarding transactions?
I've installed bitcoin wallet on my phone and had some transactions. I backed up my wallet and after backing up did some other transactions. I supposed that the back up just would restore my wallet ...
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How do I test my wallet backup?
I follow the instructions for wallet backup and save them digitally. What's a convenient way to occasionally test my wallet backup. I want to make sure that I'm not doing something stupid & my ...
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Paper backup of Core descriptor wallet
As I understand it, using dumpwallet for a non-descriptor wallet in Core will give you the wallet seed in WIF format. This seed can then be used with sethdseed in a new wallet, thereby recovering the ...
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Bitcoin core imported wallet
I have a friend that has an issue with his core: He generated a wallet with coldcard, imported in bitcoin core.. received on both bech32 addresses and nested ones. Lost access to that pc and now when ...
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Would it be possible to not be able to send funds from a wallet?
I was reading this blog post by Jameson Lopp on the best practices to back up a seed phrase
https://blog.lopp.net/how-to-back-up-a-seed-phrase/
In the "Test your backup section", he wrote:
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Multibit Private Key Restore
I backed up my private key and restored it into a new copy of Multibit (difference machine). The import was successful but the public key address has not been updated with my previous address.
I've ...
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Recover a bitcoin wallet in Hive
I've recently reformatted my Mac, and reinstalled Hive. I have a back up to Dropbox option enabled in Hive, and my old bitcoin wallet file is there. But I cannot find any way to recover my old bitcoin ...
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BIP85: Is the list of mnemonic sentences deterministically ordered?
There aren't many working implementations of BIP85 yet.
Ian Coleman's, Grondilu just added support to their Bitcoin Bash Tools, COLDCARDwallet, AirGap Vault and the Python demonstration library https:/...
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Restore blockchain.com wallet(s) in case the company goes away?
So I have some funds on an blockchain.com wallet. Actually it's multiple wallets (some ETH, some BTC)
I followed the backup procedure and wrote 12 English words on a sheet of paper.
There is an answer ...
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How can I get back my bitcoin from a backup folder
I want to restore my bitcoin wallet which backup in 2013, I have the backup folder and a password(not secure words).
Anyone know how to do?
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Software wallets and what happen if you break your computer
I've been reading about wallets, web wallets, software wallets, hardware wallets...and there is one question that I could not clear up from other threads:
Your bitcoins are stored in the chain. Use ...
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Replicate bitcoin core for backup
I want to know if possible to have the same bitcoin core and his same wallet running at the same time in two different machines, can I use the same RPC user/pass, I have o machine running but I want ...
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c-lightning node backup-restore
How do I restore a c-lightning node from a backed up hsm_secret ?
I have tried running lightningd by replacing the generated hsm_secret with the backed-up one. It shows no output and no channel.
How ...
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Should I use one `hsm_secret` for both the mainnet and the testnet?
When I launch lightningd it generates hsm_secret in ~/.lightning/bitcoin
whereas launching lightningd with network=testnet generates hsm_secret in ~/.lightning/testnet.
These two files seem to be ...
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Access Bitcoin Wallet with private key
3 years ago i bought a little bit of Bitcoin. Today i found the private key of my wallet. But I cant access it, I need these 12 words (backup) I dont have.
Why cant I access my Bitcoin Wallet with ...
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Advice on upgrading firmware on Ledger Nano
I have the discontinued Ledger Nano hardware wallet.
Ledger have released new firmware for this for SegWit and to allow splitting BCH.
To perform the update, you have to wipe your keys and re-create ...
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Is it doable to get the private keys from a Bisq wallet?
I do not mean getting the seed phrase - this I've already backed up. I do not see such a possibility from Bisq's GUI.
Is it doable to get the private key of a particular address of a Bisq wallet (much ...
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How to create a physical/paper backup for bitcoin-core wallet?
I am using bitcoin-core for my offline storage.
In electrum I can do a paper backup by writing down the mnemonics.
bitcoin-core seems to be using a different mechanism to generate the wallet.
What I ...
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How to share your wallet key/seed in case you are hit by a bus
This very useful answer says:
Share overlapping parts of your private-key or seed phrase with several family members with instructions on what to do if you are hit by a bus this afternoon.
This ...
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Public Key + Private Key enough to backup?
I invested in bitcoins and unfortunately I have problems to understand the system. Perhaps you can answer me the following questions?
1.a) I know my public and my private key. Do I still have to ...
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Unuseful backup
I know wallet.dat needs to do back up every time after I am going a transaction, 'because the backup will become unuseful.
After what else cases do I need to do backup again? What cases do my last ...
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Where is the Mycelium wallet file stored?
I have a fairly straightforward question that's still unanswered after googling for days for a definite answer, I hope you guys can help me out with this one here.
Background: I have Mycelium Bitcoin ...
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View backed up wallet.dat using sqlite browser
I backed up my wallet.dat using the command as mentioned in the api ref:
bitcoin-cli -rpcport=18332 -rpcuser=user -rpcpassword=password backupwallet "/bitcoin/backup.dat"
I would like to ...
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How do non-deterministic wallets violate the principle of address reuse?
In chapter 5 of Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas writes:
"The disadvantage of random keys is that if you generate many of them you must keep copies of all of them, meaning that the wallet must be backed up ...
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What does the Bitcoin Core wallet backup do?
I set a password to encrypt my wallet, all good. But I can't seem to backup my wallet. I try and nothing happens.
Does the backup function give me keys or the seed words?
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What software can I use to calculate my private key from a seed (e.g. Trezor or Ledger)?
I want to make sure I can use my seed from Trezor or Ledger (or others) in a backup process without using an actual Trezor or Ledger to do it.
I have to find out my private key. I probably also need ...
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What happens if the Exodus company and servers shut down?
I am reasonably confident about the security of my Exodus wallet, i.e. no one's going to steal my coins (not easily), however I can't get the following around my head...
What happens if Exodus and ...
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What happens if I delete wallet.dat?
I have this question, say I have my coins in my local wallet and 1 of 2 things can happen, say I somehow delete the wallet.dat file or some kind of malware deletes the file. I have the password ...
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How to obtain the private key of an Armory wallet?
I have a paper backup, a digital wallet backup and all the passwords: how do I retrieve the private key for a watch-only wallet so I can send some coins out of it (created in armory and imported into, ...
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Where is blockchain located on Mac for Bitcoin-Qt?
I attempted to use Bitcoin-Qt on my PC but it could not handle the Bitcoin blockchain. I therefore decided to give up and to delete the blockchain. Sadly, I cannot find where it is located.
I have ...
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How to restore locally a MyWallet backup?
The website blockchain.info has an online wallet system MyWallet which creates backups with a .aes.json extension. While I understand it's a json file encrypted with AES using my passphrase, I'm still ...
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In a multisig wallet setup what needs to be backed up and why?
In a multisig wallet setup what needs to be backed up and why?
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One seed phrase created two wallets with two script types
I have a wallet on blockchain.com and it is saved with the backup phrase. Due to issues I was not able to buy anything there, so I created an account at coinbase. This lead to the usage of coinbase ...
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Cannot open wallet dump file (code-8)
Does anyone know why I can't dump info into a text file?
It also doesn't allow me to back up my wallet.
i am using SNAP
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Permission denied when attempting to backup wallet using backupwallet
When I call bitcoin@raspberrypi:~ $ bitcoin-cli backupwallet "backup.dat", I get the following error:
error code: -4
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Error: Wallet backup failed!
~/.bitcoin/debug.log shows ...
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Does a Bitcoin Core wallet backup cover receiving addresses?
I have a Bitcoin Core wallet installed on my computer (from https://bitcoin.org/en/download). When I create a backup, will it also back up my receiving addresses? For example, I have give my address ...
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bitcoin-qt "backup wallet" vs copying wallet.dat
I am new to bitcoin, I wander what are the differences, and pros/cons (if any) between the file generated by bitcoin-qt when clicking on "backup wallet" vs copying the file "wallet.dat&...
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What's the easiest way to create a backup node?
My node recently had a data corruption and I had to re-sync it which was painful.
Presuming I don't use the node as a wallet, what's the easiest way to have a backup with the fully sync'd blockchain? ...
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