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Backup Pandacoin Wallet
Backup Pandacoin wallet
Your wallet is a file on your computer called wallet.dat. That file is your coins. Lose it and forget your password, and the PND is gone forever — no recovery, no support ticket can fix it.
Backing up takes under a minute. Do it now.
Back up before you deposit any PND. Seriously. Then back up again after you generate new receiving addresses or change your wallet password.
Option 1 — use the wallet's built-in backup
The easiest way. From inside the Pandacoin client:
Open the File menu.
Click Backup Wallet…
Choose a safe location and save the file.
wallet.dat is the file that matters.
Option 2 — copy wallet.dat manually
If the wallet is closed (or you just want a raw copy), locate your Pandacoin data directory and grab the file yourself.
Platform
Default location
Windows
%appdata%\Pandacoin\
macOS
~/Library/Application Support/Pandacoin/
Linux
~/.pandacoin/
Inside, find the file named wallet.dat and copy it to a safe location.
Close the wallet first before copying wallet.dat manually. Copying it while the wallet is running can produce a corrupted backup.
Where to store the backup
One copy isn't enough. Aim for at least two, on different devices, and ideally one of them offline.
✅ External USB stick / hard drive — keep it in a drawer, not plugged in.
✅ Encrypted cloud storage — fine as long as the wallet is password-protected.
✅ Second physical location — a copy at a friend's / family member's / safety deposit box is how you survive a house fire.
❌ Only on the same machine the wallet runs on. A failed drive = lost coins.
❌ Only in your email inbox in plain text — especially if the wallet isn't password-protected.
Encrypt your wallet
If you haven't already, encrypt the wallet with a password: Settings → Encrypt Wallet… This protects wallet.dat even if someone steals the file. Use a strong password you won't forget — there's no "forgot password" link.
If you encrypt the wallet and forget the password, your PND is gone. Write the password down somewhere safe. Nobody — including us — can recover it.
When to back up again
After creating a new wallet.
After generating new receiving addresses (the default Pandacoin wallet creates these periodically; your backup may not contain them).
After changing your wallet password.
Any time you've done something you don't want to redo.
