Can anyone confirm how Windows backups and restore works? Just copy the %LOCALAPPDATA%\byteball -folder to the new computer at the same location, install Byteball wallet, and I should see my balances?
Btw, new website is very cool!
Isn't anybody tried to recover wallet? I have Light wallet, and need to move my wallet to new computer.
If you still have accesso to old wallet it is easier for you to install a new wallet on the new computer and to transfer the asset. Otherways you can use the full backup, if you have made it.
Ok, thank you. I have of course full backup in a safe place. I try to install new wallet and recover it with my backup. Let's see if that's really that easy. I had Light wallet and going to install that again.
Is is that the case that, if I want to backup/recover assets with passphrase(except untraceable ones ie. blackbytes), I need to use full wallet at all times?
You don't need to uninstall/install the application. You can rename the folder which the actual wallet is in. This is one way of having multiple wallets, etc. Always a good idea to backup the directory AND the wallet itself
Simply doing a Full Backup on one computer and then a Full Restore on another computer is all you need. This even works across platforms.
This works for light and full node backups. Only exception is that you can't do a full restore of a full node on an android.
You can do a full backup and restore. It will also recover the blackbytes from the time of the backup. If more blackbytes were received (or spent) on a computer, then you need to rebackup else it causes problems (and possible loss/overstatement) when restoring on the new computer. Regular bytes is no problem.
You mentioned 'full wallet', but I think you meant 'full node'. No, restoring doesn't require a full node; however, a restore from SEED requires a full node.
Thank you for your answers!
The process was very easy. Just installed new wallet to my new computer and copied %LOCALAPPDATA%\byteball -folder from my old computer to the new one. I worked like a charm!
In my previous question I meant that if I'm running full node and try to restore it with passphrase only, I'll lose my blackbytes? So at the moment best way to do backup is do full backup of %LOCALAPPDATA%\byteball -folder?