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Introduction

  • Overview
  • Filecoin and IPFS
  • Apps and Filecoin

Infrastructure

  • Block explorers
  • Chain indexers
  • Libraries
  • Development wallets
  • Networks
  • Network performance
  • Node providers
  • How tos

    • Spin up a lite node

Smart contracts

  • Filecoin virtual machine
  • Quickstart
  • Hardhat
  • About

    • Use-cases
    • Blueprints
    • Project
    • Support
    • FAQs

    Concepts

    • Accounts and assets
    • Actors and contracts
    • Filecoin EVM
    • Tipsets
    • Ethereum compatibility

    How tos

    • Add to MetaMask
    • Calculate gas
    • Deploy a contract
    • Invoke a contract
    • Test a contract
    • Use a faucet

Storage helpers

  • Overview
  • Ceramic
  • Estuary
  • NFT storage
  • Starling
  • Web3 storage
  • How tos

    • Blockchain integration
    • Data encryption
    • Permissions and access-control

Reference

  • Tools
  • Specification
  • Built-in actors

    • Account actor
    • Datacap
    • Miner
    • Multisig
    • Storage market actor
    • Storage power actor
    • Verified registry actor

    JSON rpc

    • Introduction
    • Auth
    • Beacon
    • Chain
    • Client
    • Create
    • Eth
    • Gas
    • I
    • Log
    • Market
    • Miner
    • Mpool
    • Msig
    • Net
    • Paych
    • State
    • Sync
    • Wallet

Introduction

  • Overview
  • Filecoin and IPFS
  • Apps and Filecoin

Infrastructure

  • Block explorers
  • Chain indexers
  • Libraries
  • Development wallets
  • Networks
  • Network performance
  • Node providers
  • How tos

    • Spin up a lite node

Smart contracts

  • Filecoin virtual machine
  • Quickstart
  • Hardhat
  • About

    • Use-cases
    • Blueprints
    • Project
    • Support
    • FAQs

    Concepts

    • Accounts and assets
    • Actors and contracts
    • Filecoin EVM
    • Tipsets
    • Ethereum compatibility

    How tos

    • Add to MetaMask
    • Calculate gas
    • Deploy a contract
    • Invoke a contract
    • Test a contract
    • Use a faucet

Storage helpers

  • Overview
  • Ceramic
  • Estuary
  • NFT storage
  • Starling
  • Web3 storage
  • How tos

    • Blockchain integration
    • Data encryption
    • Permissions and access-control

Reference

  • Tools
  • Specification
  • Built-in actors

    • Account actor
    • Datacap
    • Miner
    • Multisig
    • Storage market actor
    • Storage power actor
    • Verified registry actor

    JSON rpc

    • Introduction
    • Auth
    • Beacon
    • Chain
    • Client
    • Create
    • Eth
    • Gas
    • I
    • Log
    • Market
    • Miner
    • Mpool
    • Msig
    • Net
    • Paych
    • State
    • Sync
    • Wallet
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  • CreateBackup

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  • CreateBackup

CreateBackup #

CreateBackup creates node backup onder the specified file name. The method requires that the lotus daemon is running with the LOTUS_BACKUP_BASE_PATH environment variable set to some path, and that the path specified when calling CreateBackup is within the base path

Perms: admin

Inputs:

[
  "string value"
]

Response: {}

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