Hello everyone, I have been running my bitcoin full node for a few days now, I would like to have it on my other computer...Can I transfer this node to another location? and haven the same node running on 2 computers? How do I do this safely? I wouldn't want to sync the entire blockchain again, sorry if my question seems stupid...
Shutdown your node on the source computer, this ensures all blockchain data is written properly to disk (better always wait until Bitcoin Core happily closes). If all your node's data files are in one directory (with subdirectories inside), copy the whole to the destination computer. When all files have been copied, check if you have file or directory path entries in config files like bitcoin.conf which need to be adjusted for the destination computer.
If everything is fine, you can start your node (assuming Bitcoin Core) on your destination computer and if you want also on your source computer. Running both nodes simultanously doesn't break something, even if you open the same wallet file on both nodes (assuming your wallets are HD wallets; legacy wallets which contain independent private keys should better not be opened on different nodes as under certain conditions (need to extend the keystore due to exhausting available keys) will result in different keystore contents in the wallets; not recommended!).
