Your pieces are on the blockchain and cannot be lost. What can be lost is the key that proves they are yours, because that key lives encrypted in your browser and nowhere else.
Backing up means having a copy of that key somewhere the browser cannot delete.
Back it up
Export your wallet from your wallet settings. You get a file with your keys in it, encrypted with your password. This is the button:
Then, and this is the part people skip:
| Do | Why |
|---|---|
| Keep the file outside this browser — another device, a drive, wherever you keep things that matter | A copy in the place you are going to clear is not a copy |
| Write down the password separately | The export is encrypted with it. The file alone will not open |
| If you have a seed phrase, write that down too | It is the most portable form: twelve words rebuild everything |
Restore it
Restoring is the same action as signing in: import the wallet again. Bring the export, the seed phrase or the keys, choose a password — a new one if you like — and you are back with the same account, the same history and the same pieces.
See Wallet formats Zoide can import.
Test the backup once
A backup nobody has ever restored is a hope, not a backup. The cheap test: open Zoide in another browser of yours, typing the address yourself, and import from your backup. If you get in, the backup works — nothing is moved and nothing is duplicated on the chain; you are opening the same wallet from two places.
One consequence worth knowing: that second browser keeps its own encrypted copy of your wallet. Do the test only on a device you control, and clear this site's data there when you are done.
What a backup does not protect you from
- Sending a piece to the wrong address. That is final; a backup does not undo a transaction.
- Somebody else having your keys. A backup you left in a shared folder is a copy for them too — and the only thing left between it and your wallet is the password, which they can try at their own pace, offline and without limit. A long password, kept somewhere else, is what makes that copy useless.