A tale as old as time: An OS (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) was hosed due to reasons unrelated to zcash, and although older backups of the user’s whole home directory exist, zcash-cli backupwallet and z_exportwallet were never once ran. Is there a way to restore a zec wallet to a different machine which is also running [a newer version of] Ubuntu using anything in the $./zcash directory? Is this as simple as just copying $./zcash into the new user’s home directory and re-installing zcash via the instructions for Debian or is it more complicated than that?
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Yes, that will work as it contains the wallet.dat file. You’ll also need to redownload the parameters but simply following the installation guide again will cover this.
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