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December 30, 2016, 04:59:11 AM
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My my Bitcoin-qt datadir is on an ubuntu headless machine, and i have started and synced the blockchain from different machines (including windows) on the LAN pointing to this datadir, but never concurrently. Can another instance of bitcoin-qt be started on another computer simultaneously using the same datadir? Will any corruption take place?
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December 30, 2016, 05:22:57 AM
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My my Bitcoin-qt datadir is on an ubuntu headless machine, and i have started and synced the blockchain from different machines (including windows) on the LAN pointing to this datadir, but never concurrently. Can another instance of bitcoin-qt be started on another computer simultaneously using the same datadir? Will any corruption take place?
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No, you cannot share the datadir with multiple instances of Bitcoin Core. It will not allow you as the first instance will put a lock (lock file indicating usage) onto the datadir.

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