How to keep my shares when moving a pool server?

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I have a question...

If I'm mining with a litecoind/bitcoind process, and a pushpool. How can i move the whole shablam to a new server/copmputer WHILEST saving the progress I have on this current round?
Also, can i move the litecoind/bitcoind and/or pushpoold service and files without having to rebuild them from source on the new machine?

Help is highly appriciated!

Are you hosting a pushpool yourself? Doesn't the pool save the amount of shares you submitted to your account so that your progress is automatically saved to your account? — Steven Roose, May 14 '13 at 12:22
The answer on your second question will heavily depend on how similar the two machines are you are moving between. — Steven Roose, May 14 '13 at 12:23
Yes, I'm hosting a pushpool myself. I don't know... All I know is that it puts shares into a database, that's neat and all, but does the progress actually save on the litecoind "account" ? — Robin Jonsson, May 14 '13 at 14:41
Oh and the second question, well it's basicly the same machine, one more core and double the ram. Same Ubuntu image. — Robin Jonsson, May 14 '13 at 14:42
@StevenRoose Also, another question... If pushpoold crashes, and i force restart the whole server with shutdown -r now. That progrss is saved as well? I hope? — Robin Jonsson, May 14 '13 at 16:05
@StevenRoose Alright, thanks anyway. Do you mind upvoting this question? :) — Robin Jonsson, May 14 '13 at 16:27
I changed the title, now I upvoted. You need to know that Bitcoin doesn't have such a thing as "progress". Mining is about trying a random puzzle, every hash your computer calculates has an equal chance of finding a block, regardless of how long you have been looking for that block. — Steven Roose, May 14 '13 at 16:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '13 at 17:51

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If you're the only person using the pool server, it doesn't matter how many shares you have -- all the profits are yours. Who would you be sharing them with?

answered May 14 '13 at 17:51

David Schwartz

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It's me and my friends. Shares are kept in the database, which i will move over to the new server as well, of course. – Robin Jonsson May 14 '13 at 17:56

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '13 at 20:05

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To move work stats/shares you have to move those stored data. In your case probably a database.
You can use the same binaries if the new computer runs the same operating system on the same architecture. Otherwise just recompile them.

answered May 15 '13 at 20:05

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Yeah, I went ahead and recompiled them. – Robin Jonsson May 16 '13 at 10:17

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 19 '13 at 15:07

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Well basically I went ahead and moved the database (mysql) and rebuilt the pushpool, stratum and litecoind sources on linux.

answered May 19 '13 at 15:07

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Pretty much what I said – Dr.Haribo Jun 05 '13 at 20:58

How to keep my shares when moving a pool server?

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