Hello everybody.
How to backup the sumocoin wallet.
I see no wallet.dat file.
Can anyone help me?
Assuming that you are using GUI wallet on Windows, back up the contents of C:\ProgramData\SumokoinGUIWallet\wallets which are:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.bin
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.bin.address.txt
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.bin.keys
You can restore your wallet with them without having to use the seed words which should be the ultimate last resort if you do not have a backup of the aforementioned files. Actually, you only need the "bin.keys" file to restore the wallet (in conjunction with the established wallet password, of course) but without the ".bin" cache file, the wallet's transactions would have to be rescanned from scratch (thereby creating a new cache file). The "bin.address.txt" file is just a text file that contains the main wallet address for convenient reference but it is not essential for the wallet to function. You do not have to back up the log files...if you do not want to.
Don't rely getting accurate information from cheerleaders.
I take that back. In Sumokoin, the three files I mentioned above are indeed needed to restore the wallet via the "Import Wallet" option offered on the first screen after installing and starting the wallet for the first time but it only needs to be pointed to the ".bin" file.
In my particular case, I merely wanted to run the wallet/node on a couple of other machines. So I just copied/cloned the "SumokoinGUIWallet" and the "sumokoin" folders, dropped them in the corresponding directory on the recipient machines and fired up the freshly installed wallet. It picks up from when it was last synced. This method is much quicker. You might want to edit the "app_settings.json" file that would be imported from the source machine and change the "block_sync_size" value accordingly (lower for a slower machine and higher for faster ones)...or you could simply keep the version created during installation (and not replace it with the imported one) as I think the performance of the machine is detected and evaluated during installation and is consequently being assigned an appropriate value accordingly.
Edit: That said, the seed words must be backed up and secured nevertheless. As I stated on my prior post, it's the "ultimate last resort".