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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: dumdumdum on July 24, 2012, 04:02 pm
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Hi,
Im going to be reformatting my computer over the next couple of days and was wondering if anyone could answer a couple of my questions???
How would i go about keeping my PGP key
and
keeping my bitcoins that i store on my computer?
cheers
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Hi,
Im going to be reformatting my computer over the next couple of days and was wondering if anyone could answer a couple of my questions???
How would i go about keeping my PGP key
and
keeping my bitcoins that i store on my computer?
cheers
To back up your secret key:
gpg -a --export-secret-keys -o mysecret.asc 0xDEADBEEF
Where 0xDEADBEEF is your key ID. Then copy mysecret.asc to an external device (e.g. a flash drive) to be copied back to the new system and imported back into your keyring.
I would advise making a copy of your entire GPG directory (usually ~/.gnupg/ on POSIX systems).
To backup your BTC just make a copy of your wallet.dat file. You can do this from within the Bitcoin-qt client.