backupwallet

backupwallet "destination"

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

Argument #1 - destination

Type: string, required

The destination directory or file

Result

null    (json null)

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/