Documentation exported from Bitcoin Core 0.16.0

backupwallet (0.16.0 RPC)

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backupwallet "destination"

Safely copies current wallet file to destination, which can be a directory or a path with filename.

Arguments:
1. "destination"   (string) The destination directory or file

Examples:
> bitcoin-cli backupwallet "backup.dat"
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "backupwallet", "params": ["backup.dat"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/