REMINDER: BACK UP YOUR WALLET
Why Back Up Your Wallet?
Don't assume that keeping your crypto wallet on your PC at home is completely safe. Unexpected events can occur that may make both your PC and wallet inaccessible, such as:
- House fires or natural disasters
- Operating system failures or crashes
- Data corruption or hardware damage
What is the best way to back up ?
Encrypt your wallet with a strong password and apply the 3-2-1 rule of back-up.
- Keep 3 copies of your data: Maintain the original data and two backup copies to ensure redundancy.
- Use 2 different storage types: Store the backups on two distinct types of media, such as an external hard drive and cloud storage, to minimize risk of simultaneous failure.
- Store 1 copy off-site: Keep at least one backup in a remote location (like a cloud service or another physical location) to protect against local disasters.
How do I do it ?
- Encrypt your wallet (Optional but recommended)
- Set a strong password and be sure to save it
Pepecoin core will restart
- You can Back Up now and select where you want to backup your file
⚠️TRY your back-up and How to Import your wallet⚠️
You might think you are good to go, but it is essential that you know how to import your back-up to verify if you did the step successfully.
How to import a wallet
If you didn't change the default folder location when installing Pepecoin core, your wallet can be found in the folder:
C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Pepecoin
[YOUR USERNAME] being your windows username
You can access this easily by navigating in the explorer or pressing WindowsKey + R
A windows will appear, you just need to type %appdata% and press OK
the explorer windows will open, find the folder with the name "Pepecoin" and open it.
We can now see your wallet at the file named wallet.dat
⚠️BE SURE THAT PEPECOIN CORE IS CLOSED⚠️
If you want to import a wallet from a back-up you need to replace the wallet.dat with your back-up.
You can rename the file wallet.dat to wallet2.dat (You can delete it but it is safer to just rename it in case you want to restore this wallet later)
and you can now copy your back-up to this folder and rename it (IMPORTANT) to wallet.dat
here how your folder should look after you are done, with wallet2.dat (your old wallet) and wallet.dat (your new wallet)
You can now start Pepecoin core again and see that your wallet is back again
