\[Solved\] Coin backup \* Advice on wallet backups
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So i’ve mined me a few coins, and bought some more.
I would like to back them up incase my HDD fails.
I understand I just need to copy the wallet to a thumb drive, and they’re safe, right?
And another thing;
What happens if my HDD fries, and the backed up wallet isn’t up to date?
Will the block chain show that I have (for example) 100 coins, even if the backed up wallet dhows I only have 50?
effectively changing the sum in the backed up wallet to the true total?
Or have I effectively lost 50 FTC? -
The wallet.dat files only contains your FTC address(es) and their private keys.
If you have 1 FTC address and your balance is 100 when you back it up, and 1year later your HDD crashes and you still use only 1 FTC address you can just download a new client and place the wallet.dat back to the feathercoin folder and all should be fine :). -
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The wallet.dat files only contains your FTC address(es) and their private keys.
If you have 1 FTC address and your balance is 100 when you back it up, and 1year later your HDD crashes and you still use only 1 FTC address you can just download a new client and place the wallet.dat back to the feathercoin folder and all should be fine :).
[/quote]Sweet.
Well, I only intend to use the one wallet for my holdings, and another smaller one on my phone for on the fly purchases once crypto takes off and I can use it in the actual world.