My computer is acting funky these days

[halfawake]

...And I'm going to need to do a reformat / reinstall to fix it, unfortunately.  I was wondering about the process of backing up my Armory wallets.  Is there anything I need to do other than saving all the private keys to ensure that I'll be able to restore the wallets once I reinstall Windows?

[knahrvorn]

Easiest thing would probably be to backup the full Armory data directory, if you are able to. That would save you from having to let Armory build the database again, and you will backup any wallets, transaction comments, etc.

Otherwise you should be able to restore your wallets from your paper backups (hopefully; otherwise they are of no use!), but this wouldn't let you keep your transaction and address comments. You will need to back those up separately.

[halfawake]

Easiest thing would probably be to backup the full Armory data directory, if you are able to. That would save you from having to let Armory build the database again, and you will backup any wallets, transaction comments, etc.

Hrm, good point.  Not having to let Armory build the database again would be a pretty big benefit to that approach, so I think I'll do that. 

[btchris]

Easiest thing would probably be to backup the full Armory data directory, if you are able to. That would save you from having to let Armory build the database again, and you will backup any wallets, transaction comments, etc.

Hrm, good point.  Not having to let Armory build the database again would be a pretty big benefit to that approach, so I think I'll do that. 

If you think there's any chance of a hardware issue, I'd avoid copying anything besides the wallet files if I were you.... I had an issue that turned out to be bad RAM causing Armory database corruption issues each time I tried a rebuild... copying a potentially bad database might propagate whatever problem you're having.

Also, with the 0.93 just around the corner, you can either wait for 0.93 or grab the most recent beta from the 0.93 thread which offers much faster database rebuild times thanks to goatpig's efforts (I recently did a database rebuild and it took about 1.5 hours on a HD, not even an SSD).

Even Bitcoin Core blockchain downloads with 0.10 are much better, if you choose not to copy over its data directories. It can still take a number of hours, but that's a whole lot better than the day or two it used to take.

[halfawake]

Easiest thing would probably be to backup the full Armory data directory, if you are able to. That would save you from having to let Armory build the database again, and you will backup any wallets, transaction comments, etc.

Hrm, good point.  Not having to let Armory build the database again would be a pretty big benefit to that approach, so I think I'll do that. 

If you think there's any chance of a hardware issue, I'd avoid copying anything besides the wallet files if I were you.... I had an issue that turned out to be bad RAM causing Armory database corruption issues each time I tried a rebuild... copying a potentially bad database might propagate whatever problem you're having.

Also, with the 0.93 just around the corner, you can either wait for 0.93 or grab the most recent beta from the 0.93 thread which offers much faster database rebuild times thanks to goatpig's efforts (I recently did a database rebuild and it took about 1.5 hours on a HD, not even an SSD).

I originally thought I had a hard drive that was going bad, but then I bought a new hard drive and the problem didn't go away.  I had some malware several months ago and I'm fairly certain that it corrupted some of my Windows drivers.  I tried doing a repair reinstall a while ago but it didn't fix the problem, so I think I'm going to have to do a clean reformat / reinstall to fix it. 

Although your comment about 0.93 being just around the corner makes me wonder if I'd be better off waiting a little longer for that stable version of it to come out.

[DLCseller]

Acting funky? What do you mean?
Did you accidentally install a malware on your computer?
Did you scan using an antivirus?

[halfawake]

Acting funky? What do you mean?
Did you accidentally install a malware on your computer?
Did you scan using an antivirus?

I had malware.  I got rid of it several months ago, but my computer never really fully recovered from the effects of it.

[DLCseller]

Acting funky? What do you mean?
Did you accidentally install a malware on your computer?
Did you scan using an antivirus?

I had malware.  I got rid of it several months ago, but my computer never really fully recovered from the effects of it.

Man....the hacker might have a hard time coding the malware