Mysterium node backup & restore on linux or windows

Backing up your Mysterium node is crucial to ensure that your configs and data are safe in case of system failures or data corruption. This guide will walk you through the steps to back up your Mysterium node on both Windows and Linux platforms.

Myst node config & data

Mysterium node's config includes active services, account API, current theme etc, while data includes configs, node’s public address, private key and its encryption details, Message Authentication Code, file id, version etc.

Config: /etc/mysterium-node/
Data: /var/lib/mysterium-node/

Backup Myst node on Linux

Create a compressed backup with necessary files from /var/lib/mysterium-node/*.

# creates <myst-date.tar.gz> compressed backup 
sudo tar --exclude={"mainnet/*","*/logs/*"} -cvzf ~/myst-$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S").tar.gz -C /var/lib/mysterium-node/

The --exclude={"mainnet/*","*/logs/*"} excludes unnecessary files.

Restore Myst node on Linux

Replace ~/myst-date.tar.gz with actual zip backup of MystNode.

# extracts <myst-date.tar.gz> to '/var/lib/mysterium-node/'
sudo tar -xvzf ~/myst-date.tar.gz -C /var/lib/mysterium-node/ --strip-components=2