Backup your private keys
Fun fact: ~50 mil QUIL have been lost forever because people forgot to back up their keys :-o
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Fun fact: ~50 mil QUIL have been lost forever because people forgot to back up their keys :-o
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After 30 minutes that then node has been running, it should have generated your keys and config files correctly. Use or to navigate to the root/ceremonyclient/node/.config folder.
You may have to enable visibility for hidden files in WinSCP if you don't see the .config folder.
After your node begins to work you need to keep updated backups of your whole /ceremonyclient/node/.config folder, because it contains all the files that hold your rewards.
Personally and for maximum security, I back up my keys.yml and config.yml files locally, while I keep synced updated backups of all the other files remotely via StorJ. Some people just back up their entire .config folder, though.
Another thing I do, before shutting down a node, is I stop it and do a final full backup. This is because although you can back up your store folder while the node is running, the store file that is being written to won't be backed up, so you risk losing some rewards.
See also Backup your node
