Moving computers

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#1

Hi, at some point in the future I will be moving my NEM wallet with my main account on to another computer. Is there a tutorial out there on how to do this? I have the wallet set up with delegated harvesting pointing to my VPS supernode. I shouldn’t have to make any changes to my supernode as far as I’m aware when moving to another PC. Is it just a matter of backing up my wallet on my old computer, install the NEM software on the new PC, then restore from backup?

#2
  1. If you have a supernode, why not harvest with that node directly by configuring your delegated account to harvest?
  2. After you set up your new computer you can either import your account via private key (the disadvantage in doing so is that you would have a new delegated key which is probably unwanted) or you do as you proposed, backup your wallet on your old computer and import it on the new computer (in this case your delegated key should stay the same)…
#3

Thanks BloodyRookie. In regards to point 1, I didn’t know you could harvest on the supernode directly,

  1. Is it just a matter of installing the NCC and logging onto it and configuring harvesting?
  2. How would I be able to obtain any fees from generated blocks on the supernode back into my main account?
  3. Wouldn’t the importance on the supernode be lower than on my main account, as it doesn’t have any XEM on there?
  4. Am I more likely to generate blocks and fees on the supernode than I would on my main account delegated to my supernode?

Sorry for the questions, I’m intrigued. :wink:

#4

Your supernode uses a delegated account to boot NIS, the corresponding main account has 3M xem.
In the config.properties (or config-user.properties if you have that file), there is an entry

nis.shouldAutoHarvestOnBoot = true

If this entry is set to true then your vps will automatically do delegated harvesting with the boot account.
You don’t need ncc for that. The generated fees are automatically transferred to the corresponding main account.
It is true that the delegated account has no xem on it but that doesn’t matter since the importance was delegated from the main account to the delegated account (that is what you did with the importance transfer transaction which was initiated when you clicked on activate delegated harvesting in ncc when preparing the acount).

#5

Thanks BloodyRookie, that makes sense. Both config-user.properties and config.properties have that setting set to true and the nis.bootKey is my delegated account private key.

Where are the generated fees from the delegated vps account shown? I’m still harvesting (delegated) on my main account and get the odd block harvested with fees. Just not sure where I can see the fees if they’re generated from the vps autoharvestonboot delegated private key.

#6

The fee should be visible in the harvested blocks tab in ncc.