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Failover settings for cgminer, bfgminer and sgminer
The default setup in all three mining programs is failover. This means that if you input a number of pools, it will try to use them as a priority list, moving away from the 1st to the 2nd, 2nd to 3rd and so on. If any of the earlier pools recover, it will move back to the higher priority ones.
So what you need to do is to register at a community pool and set that pool as your primary. Then register at our temporary pool and set that pool as your secondary. An example of how you should setup your .bat is below:
-o http://pool1:port -u pool1username.workername -p pool1workerpassword -o http://tempmining.cleanwatercoin.org:3333 -u pool2username.workername -p pool2password
Below is an example of how you setup your failover if you use a .conf file instead:
"pools" : [
{
"url" : "stratum+tcp://pool1:port",
"user" : "pool1username.workername",
"pass" : "pool1workerpassword"
},
{
"url" : "stratum+tcp://tempmining.cleanwatercoin.org:3333",
"user" : "pool2username.workername",
"pass" : "pool2workerpassword"
},
]
No matter what pool you have decided to mine at, whether its our official pool, the temp pool, or a community pool, we highly suggest you include a failover pool. This will prevent you from incurring extended down time if your main pool gets DDOS’d. It’s always better to be safe than sorry!