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I have an external drive where at some point I did a complete backup of my (linux) home directory.
There's a directory .bitcoin.
I now have a computer, and I just installed bitcoin-qt and other stuff. I started it and it generated a new receiver address.
If I copy the old .bitcoin directory from the external drive to my current new home, will it work?
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To avoid any problem,in your source computer backup your private keys
bitcoind dumpprivkey
to answer your question, By default Bitcoin will put its data here:
~/.bitcoin/
I think the wallet is located in a file wallet.dat(https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory#Linux), so if you copy it, it will works.
fore a best security level, encrypt your wallet with a paraphrase before backaping it.
I don't have any coins there, but I run a blog and I installed a wordpress plugin there some time ago which would publish a bitcoin address, in order to accept BTC donations. I could just change that address but I wondered. – faboolous – 2016-02-05T16:59:22.173
hmmm, after my own question here http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/42773/storing-bitcoins-database-directory-on-an-external-drive I should be able to have an answer myself: actually running the whole wallet on the external DB :)
– faboolous – 2016-02-05T17:53:09.460