Backup ADA node

Ideally you’d want to restore using your seed words, but ofcourse there are use cases where backing up of physical folders is essential. Assuming you’ve cloned cardano-sl to $HOME/cardano-sl and used defaults to connect to mainnet wallet:

  • To backup the encrypted key and Wallet checkpoint information, the location would be $HOME/cardano-sl/state-wallet-mainnet/secret.key and $HOME/cardano-sl/state-wallet-mainnet/wallet-db-acid.

  • To backup the local copy of blockchain DB, the location would be $HOME/cardano-sl/state-wallet-mainnet/db

Hope this helps.