What Will I Learn?

• You will learn how to Backup and Restore your Ethereum Wallet Address, Blockchain Data and Wallet Application Data in any Windows computer. The Application Data is where your created contracts are stored. Blockchain data (chaindata) is where the blockchain is stored. Wallet Address is where your wallet or ether coin/token is stored.
  This tutorial is useful if you want to transfer your wallet address, blockchain data and wallet application data to another computer or you just want to have a copy of your wallet in another computer or if you just reformatted your computer and installing a new copy of Ethereum Wallet or you just want to uninstall and install your wallet again.

Requirements

• Ethereum Wallet that is already installed in your computer. If there's none you can get Ethereum Wallet here

Difficulty

• Intermediate

Tutorial Contents

Backup your Wallet

Step 1

Open Ethereum Wallet, select "Files -> Backup -> Accounts"

Step 2

Open "Keystore"

Step 3

Inside Keystore you should see something like the screenshot below. If you have multiple Ethereum wallet address copy them all then save them in a separate folder.

Backup Blockchain Data (chaindata)

Step 4

Open Ethereum Wallet, select "Files -> Backup -> Accounts"

Step 5

Open "Geth"

Step 6

Copy the folder "chaindata" in a separate folder.

Backup Wallet Application Data

Step 7

Open Ethereum Wallet, select "Files -> Backup -> Application data"

Step 8

Copy everything inside this folder in a separate folder.

Restoring your Wallet

Note: If you are restoring your wallet to a newly installed Ethereum Wallet you should see something like the screenshot below wherein you will see a new address created by the app. Do not worry, Ethereum by default is creating a wallet every each new installation. You can safely delete it if you want to.

Step 9

Open Ethereum Wallet, select "Files -> Backup -> Accounts"

Step 10

Open "Keystore", paste all the addresses you have copied in Step 3. After pasting your wallets you should immediately see it together with the address created by default by the Ethereum Wallet. See Figure 1

Figure 1

Restoring your Application data

In this process we have to open the folder of application data, then we have to close Ethereum Wallet so that we will not encounter any problem in restoring application data.

Step 11

Open Ethereum Wallet, select "Files -> Backup -> Application data". The application data folder will open, we should see something like the screenshot below. Paste all the data you have copied in Step 8, overwrite everything if it ask you to. (Close Ethereum Wallet first before pasting the data)

Restoring your blockchain data

Step 12

Open Ethereum Wallet, select "Files -> Backup -> Accounts" then open "Geth".

Step 13

Inside the Geth folder you will see a folder named "chaindata", just paste the chaindata that you have copied in Step 6 (Close Ethereum Wallet first before pasting the folder). Just overwrite if it ask you to.

That's it, it's done.

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