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April 05, 2013, 02:45:58 PM
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I'm curious to know how many people have a backup of their blockchain.info wallet and how many do not and trust it to not disappear or else they lose everything...

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April 05, 2013, 02:53:40 PM
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Backed up via Google Drive and email, and I imported the private key into Armory so that if necessary I can spend from a desktop client in case the website is down.
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April 05, 2013, 03:09:27 PM
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If you mean submitting an email or dropbox backup then yes,
and I think you have an auto backup option to do that every time you transfer funds.
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April 05, 2013, 06:15:15 PM
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Yeah I have it auto send me a backup, so any time I create a new address etc I get a copy
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April 05, 2013, 06:43:37 PM
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Backup on dropbox, google drive, email, local.
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April 08, 2013, 05:17:53 PM
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Nice, it seems a decent amount of people backup it.

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April 08, 2013, 11:02:37 PM
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Quote from: Gabi on April 08, 2013, 05:17:53 PM
Nice, it seems a decent amount of people backup it.

More likely, the people intelligent and aware enough to find this thread in the first place are intelligent and aware enough to make sure they are backing up their wallet.  Meanwhile a significant majority of individuals aren't backing up their wallet and if/when blockchain has a service interruption they will suddenly show up on the forum (from a Google search) complaining about how they've been scammed.

I suspect your poll is suffering from self-selection bias.
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April 08, 2013, 11:32:08 PM
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If I import new keys into my blockchain.info wallet, will the backup include them should I ever restore from it?

I'm guessing yes, but I thought I read somewhere that imported keys, along with any coins assigned to them, disappear when restoring.
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April 09, 2013, 12:22:00 AM
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Quote from: Landstander on April 08, 2013, 11:32:08 PM
If I import new keys into my blockchain.info wallet, will the backup include them should I ever restore from it?

I'm guessing yes, but I thought I read somewhere that imported keys, along with any coins assigned to them, disappear when restoring.

You would need to create a new backup after importing the keys.  They won't be included in a backup that was created before the import.

Assuming that, then I believe that the backup would include the imported keys.
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April 09, 2013, 12:28:12 AM
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Thanks, that makes sense.
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