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backupwallet
============

``backupwallet "destination"``

Safely copies current wallet file to destination, which can be a directory or a path with filename.

Argument #1 - destination
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

**Type:** string, required

The destination directory or file

Examples
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.. highlight:: shell

::

  bitcoin-cli backupwallet "backup.dat"

::

  curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "backupwallet", "params": ["backup.dat"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/