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  • Presearch Project
    • 🏠Welcome to Presearch πŸ‘‹
    • πŸͺ™Tokenomics
      • Contract Security
      • Liquidity Providing Uniswap
      • Liquidity Providing Aerodrome
    • πŸ’°PRE Purchasing Options
      • How to Buy PRE Tokens in the United States Using USD: A Comprehensive Guide
      • Supported Exchanges
      • Buy with Credit Card
      • How to Swap PRE in Trust Wallet
      • How to Swap PRE in Metamask Wallet
      • How to buy PRE in AhoraCrypto.com
    • πŸ—ΊοΈRoadmap
    • πŸ›‘οΈWeb3 - Safety, Troubleshooting & Best practices
    • ❓General FAQ
      • Which blockchain do PRE Tokens operate on?
      • How many tokens can I buy?
      • When I buy tokens, how do I pay?
      • When will I receive my tokens?
      • What can I use my tokens for?
      • How to withdraw tokens from Presearch?
      • What Wallets accept PRE?
      • Referral Program
      • How can I help promoting Presearch?
      • How can I contact the support team?
      • Who do I contact for marketing / promotional offers?
      • Presearch vision paper
  • Presearch Engine
    • ⭐What is Presearch Engine?
    • ❓Presearch Engine FAQ
      • How to set Presearch as the Default Search Engine on Desktop
      • How to Set Presearch as Your Default Search Engine on the Chrome App in iOS
      • How to Set Presearch as Your Default Search Engine on the Chrome App in Android
      • Am I tracked when I use Presearch?
      • How to use the Maps
      • How to Change the Color of the Search Engine
      • How to use the Testnet/Presearch engine
      • Why are my reward tokens not increasing when I search?
      • What is 'Authentic Search'?
      • What is Rewards Verification?
      • How to use AI
      • How to Add New Search Providers to your Presearch Dashboard
      • How to Change Password
      • How to Update profile
    • πŸ”ŽMetaSearch
    • NSFW Spicy Mode
  • PreGPT AI
    • ⭐What is PreGPT 2.0?
    • πŸ€–How to use PreGPT 2.0
    • ❓PreGPT FAQ
      • General usage
      • Subscription
      • Service operation
      • AI model limitations
      • Roadmap & Improvements
      • Policy
  • Nodes
    • ⭐What is a Node?
      • Hardware and system requirements
    • βš™οΈNode Setup Instructions
      • Generic installation instructions
      • Node Configuration Parameters
      • Individual Setup for various VPS providers
        • Running a node on FluxOS
          • Flux Node Grandfathering
        • Running a node on Akash
        • Running a node on ThreeFold
        • Running a Node on AWS
        • Running a Node on Racknerd
        • Running a node on Microsoft Azure
        • Running a node on Linux VPS
        • Running a node on Stack OS
      • Setup Nodes on Raspberry Pi
    • πŸ”§Troubleshooting and maintenance
      • Backing Up and Migrating Nodes
      • Alternative to Backing up nodes
      • Backup method with Docker Desktop for Windows
      • Backup method for Linux
    • πŸŽ‡Node Rewards
    • πŸ” API Access
    • 🫐Preberry
    • ❓Nodes FAQ
      • Can I already run a Presearch node?
      • Is Docker required to run a Presarch node?
      • Is there a node network explorer or some kind of overview page?
      • Will there be IPv6 support for Presearch nodes?
      • Can I run Presearch node besides Flux node?
      • IOS application to view node statistics
  • Keyword Staking
    • ⭐What is Keyword Staking?
    • 🀝Strategy for Staking PRE
    • πŸ“¦Ads Pricing - How much does it cost to advertise on Presearch?
    • ❓Keywords FAQ
      • How can I see keywords traffic?
      • How to report bogus/abusive ADs from Keyword staking?
  • Search Staking and Usage Rewards
    • ⭐What are Usage rewards?
      • How do PRE rewards work
      • How to claim search rewards
    • ❓Search Staking FAQ
      • How to use Search staking?
      • How to use the calculator for Search Stake
  • AD-FREE SEARCH FEATURE
    • How to use the Ad-Free Search Feature
  • Support
    • πŸ†˜Presearch Support
    • πŸ—žοΈPresearch News
    • πŸ“Press Release
  • NFTs
    • πŸ›£οΈ"The Road to Mainnet"
    • πŸ’»Supported Wallets
  • Community
    • πŸ› οΈCommunity Projects
    • πŸ§‘β€πŸ«Community Tutorials
      • Intense Investor
      • Martin Valk
      • Your Friend Andy
      • Keith Laye
      • Passive Aggressive Income
      • Lefty Chris - How to Create a Presearch Node
      • Crypto Laymen
      • Modo Tech
      • Mechanic Joe
      • TheNodeCatcher
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  • Steps to backup your node identity
  • 1. Execute backup instructions inside VPS / Linux machine
  • 2. Transfer backup under the hood

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Backup method for Linux

Following steps tends to be general backup steps for any Linux based OS distributions like Ubuntu, CentOS, Oracle Linux, RedHat or any other out there used.

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Assumptions

  • You are able to connect inside your machine or VPS server over generally available SSH clients for your operating system running at your home pc or laptop (Windows, Mac, Linux or any other)

  • Your node instance is running flawlessly without any troubles inside remote VPS machine or hosting provider service of your choice

  • You are not hosting your node inside Docker Desktop container on a Windows or Mac machine

  • You are connected into home folder and have necessary rights to read files created by docker or if you are unsure just execute with the root priviledges

Steps to backup your node identity

1. Execute backup instructions inside VPS / Linux machine

Execute following instructions right after you successfully login into your machine:

mkdir ~/presearch-node-keys && cp /var/lib/docker/volumes/presearch-node-storage/_data/.keys/* ~/presearch-node-keys && ls ~/presearch-node-keys

Above instructions do:

  1. create a new folder called "presearch-node-keys" directly in your users home folder at remote machine or VPS

  2. copy identity keys (public key) id_rsa.pub and (private key) id_rsa into folder presearch-node-keys

2. Transfer backup under the hood

Next step is to get the backup into your home pc or laptop. Having backup resides only inside your vps machine does not guarantee you that disk or storage would never get compromised or lost for some reasons.

So to download or transfer from VPS / remote Linux based machine you could use any SFTP client of your choice. If you haven't ever done this you can try following apps:

How to use the above apps is above the scope of this tutorial, but in most cases both apps are easy to install and use without prior experience with any of them.

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for Windows or Mac

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WinSCP
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