Backup

Due to its simple storage, making backup of bitcoin-akka is easy.

• Stop the program (Ctrl-C)
• Do a backup of the block header database to a SQL file (using mysqldump or from the workbench)
• Copy the UTXO directory and the sql backup somewhere

Restore

• Copy the UTXO directory back
• Restore the database backup (using mysql or the workbench)
• Restart the program