Creating wallet backups

[csupnig]

Hi everyone!

I was wondering what the best way to export and save wallets is. Up to now I just saved the .dat file somewhere.

Is there a best practice on how you should proceed on creating backups? Does the .dat file only contain the key and do you only need to back it up once? Where do you keep your wallet backups?

Please share your experience

[meade16]

I keep mine on 2 external hard disks and a couple of USB pendrives.

[infinitybo]

Both as already explained you can choose whatever you want for example to use Bitcoin-qt.

[Supercrypt]

either you can copy your wallet.dat file to other drive or USB

or you can use QT client to backup your wallet

go to File -> Backup Wallet

now choose the location and save

Done !!

[KriszDev]

Original (original bitcoin client) wallet.dat contains:
- keypairs (private and public keys)
- transactions
- key pool (used for faster address generation)
- preferences

If you want to backup your wallet:
- make an password protected archive file
- add the wallet.dat
- upload to cloud storages
- make the file private (if the storage is public)