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Question about how to backup Monero wallet of sensitive information. See also wallet-recovery tag to procedure about how to recover from backup.

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Is it safe to make backup of wallet? If so, is there a reference procedure somewhere?

For example, to prevent problems if my dog eat my usb stick with my wallet, is it safe to make backup of wallet ? If so, what would be a correct procedure to make (i.e, what are the important part to backup, the ones to write down and lock in a…
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Clean up Monero on Mac OSX

I used monero before the GUI came out. Whenever a new version came out I created a new folder in my home directory and as far as I remember copied the wallet files into the new folder and never deleted the old folders. Then the GUI came out and I…
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How to back up my wallet using monero core gui beta?

How to back up my wallet using monero core gui beta? I use the windows 64 bits version thank you.
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Backup and Disaster Recovery for Monero Fork

For a clone of Monero in a production environment, what files/directories to be backed up and and what intervals?
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How do I back up my funds?

I plan to use Monero to receive donations. In case of whatever reason something goes wrong with my laptop, I wan't to be able to keep back ups of my funds. Is this possible? I have an Android phone and an external drive. How do I go about backing up…
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Backup and upgrade

It's getting cold and its a time to turn on my heater/miner again ;-) I saw that this machine is still running Ubuntu 14.04. I think it would be time to upgrade/reinstall the entire machine at that point. What do I need to backup? Which…
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Is there a way to import the extra info of outgoing transactions to a restored wallet?

Let's say I have a wallet with some outgoing transactions. The transaction history shows the recipients' addresses, the payment ids, etc. Now let's suppose that the wallet file gets corrupted for some reason. I then create a new wallet file using…
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Is there any reason not to upgrade Ubuntu when new updates are available?

Last month, 16.10 was released. I guess this would be considered a "point release." Is there anything about point releases to watch out for, or is it generally safe to upgrade for them? It almost seems like I'm asking a dumb question, where the…
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How do I backup a wallet in monero-wallet-cli?

Which files are relevant to an individual wallet's data?
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How to back up only new blocks on blockchain using rsync

Using rsync in the normal way copies the entire blockchain to backup every time new blocks are added. To get around this, I used the --append flag, however even though the size of the backup is the same as the newly updated blockchain, if I run…
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How does address recovery work?

I have a secret key pair (from a wallet.keys file or derived from a seed-phrase). I'm researching the subaddress recovery process from those keys. I heard about BIP32-similar methods in Bitcoin. I know the gap-limit concept. How does the Monero…
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How can I back up my node efficiently?

I have two external disks, each with a copy of the Monero blockchain. Most of the time, one of the disks sits in a cupboard and its copy of the blockchain lags behind. Every few days, I plug it in and restart monerod with a suitable argument to…
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