Backing up and restoring a node

The backup and restore feature can be used to reset the network (remove all blocks & transactions by deleting the database) without deleting GCR accounts.

You can do this by executing the run script and setting the -b flag to true :

./run -b true #other flags here

How it works'

Accounts are dumped into a JSON file in the output directory at the node source root by running the dump script and then restarting the node as usual (but with the -c true flag). The node scans the output directory and if a dump file is found, it is parsed and converted into the genesis format. All the accounts in the genesis are created when the genesis block is forged.

To add a node to a restored network, please see: Joining the testnet using a custom genesis