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January 04, 2014, 03:30:07 PM
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Can someone confirm that I'm doing the right thing here?

When I began with MultiBit, I just used the default wallet “multibit” -- no name change, no additional wallets. So my FULL BACKUP of the one wallet was pretty straightforward. I'd copy..
multibit.wallet [file]
multibit.info [file]
multibit-data [directory] [entire]

Now I've added a second wallet “second”, and I see my user file folder has simply added..
second.wallet [file]
second.info [file]
second-data [directory]

Question: To now make a Full Backup, do I just copy all six of these file/directories into my backup set? Nothing else? That's ALL I would need to fully restore everything should I need to someday?

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January 04, 2014, 05:11:03 PM
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Can someone confirm that I'm doing the right thing here?

When I began with MultiBit, I just used the default wallet “multibit” -- no name change, no additional wallets. So my FULL BACKUP of the one wallet was pretty straightforward. I'd copy..
multibit.wallet [file]
multibit.info [file]
multibit-data [directory] [entire]

Now I've added a second wallet “second”, and I see my user file folder has simply added..
second.wallet [file]
second.info [file]
second-data [directory]

Question: To now make a Full Backup, do I just copy all six of these file/directories into my backup set? Nothing else? That's ALL I would need to fully restore everything should I need to someday?

Hi!

I have just copied the wallet files, so this makes me a bit worried. I think the wallet files enough, but I hope to get this confirmed.

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January 04, 2014, 07:04:20 PM
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I have just copied the wallet files, so this makes me a bit worried. I think the wallet files enough, but I hope to get this confirmed.
I got the more expansive list for backups from a Jim618 post I found somewhere and printed back in November. It mentioned that exporting private keys doesn't save transaction labels; and that what I show (for single wallet backup) is how "..to backup EVERYTHING for a wallet.." We'll wait together for the captains of this ship to respond.

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January 07, 2014, 05:15:08 PM
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The backup strategy described by the OP is probably the safest way to do it. It's the way I do it.

By backing up all of the wallet, info file and data directory you have a copy of everything wallet related.
Some of it is overkill, in that the data directory contains the automatic backups.

Having backups of backups isn't a bad thing though and it is a simple directory copy to do.

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