Backup and recovery

Catalyst Blockchain Manager enables Backup and recovery.

Throughout this user guide, we explain how to back up the Parties of your Validator and how to restore from them. This prevents your Canton Coins to be lost.

How to create a new Identity Dump?

When deleting the old deployment be sure to set the Delete all resources false as displayed below.

Validator Removal
Figure 1. Validator Removal

To set up a new Dump go to the Validators tab to see all your Validators.

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Figure 2. Validators

Once at your validators menu, click on the dump icon of the validator you pretend to back up as displayed in the image below

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Figure 3. create dump

A pop-up is show, asking you to provide your Validator wallet user password you stored when creating your validator.

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Figure 4. create dump - insert wallet-user-pwd.png

How to restore a validator from an Identity Dump?

At your validators menu click on the “Set up validator” button to open a side window.

Set up validator button
Figure 5. Set up validator button

Enable the option to Restore participant identities.

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Figure 6. Dump restore option

Select your Identity Dump, and provide a new ID following the naming rules.

Restore from dump
Figure 7. Restore from dump

Proceed to create your validator as for a new one.

The fields used to config the network access must be identical to the ones created on the Validator you are trying to restore.

Please check the Validator Management section to get more details on how to set a new validator