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dumpwallet cannot be a backup for stealth addresses? This could be a text warning in veil-cli? #976

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Users (such as miners) who had not recorded their seed words tried to backup their stealth address with
dumpwallet or dumpprivkey sv...

While attempting to dumpprivkey will clearly fail, giving the error message Address does not refer to a key (code -3) it may not be clear when using dumpwallet that private keys related to stealth addresses are not included.
Certainly, it would be futile to backup an endless list of keys used by a stealth address, and both the wallet.dat and the seed words are the only true backup, so maybe we can add some kind of warning to this effect when someone uses dumpwallet and in the help text for both dumpwallet and dumpprivkey.

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Bounty: OpenThis issue can be worked on by anyone that is interested in earning the bounty.Coin Type: CTSpecifically related to CT transactionsCoin Type: RingCTSpecifically related to RingCT transactionsComponent: RPCRelated to the console commands themselves.Component: WalletRelating to keystore, tx creation, and balance trackingGood First IssueEasy enough that people new can complete.

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