Thank you for this guide!, I just recovered my node in less than an hour with all LN channels working like a charm. Very important to have my seed phrase and a rsync copy of channels.db & wallet.db. My old node setup was a total loss, now downloading all blocks again.
Running my new Node on a custom Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux machine.
Yes, this has helped me. The instructions in the guide are wrong for method 1. It would prevent a lot of further questions if the guide was corrected for method 1 @DarthCoin
Prior to the SCP command, it appears to instruct you to ssh into Umbrel. But the SCP command should be ran on your windows PC where the channel.backup file is. This is why a lot of people are confused with method 1
I think you are not reading all. Is right there. Also is well known that LND at restoring a SCB backup is closing the channels in order to recover the funds. Is STANDARD procedure.
Hey DarthCoin - I’m following these instructions trying to restore my wallet and channels but am getting this message when I copy the file into my Terminal CL. It is saying there is no such file or directory. Any ideas why? I’m entering “scp” followed by a space and then dragging and dropping the file from its location
I would suggest that is much better to just start a new nodeid, new seed with your newly installed umbrel node.
Do the recovery funds in Blixt mobile app (see point 3) with your old seed + channels.backup.
Is always good to start fresh a new node.
Or if you still want to reuse the old one, just copy the file channels.backup into your node mSD or SSD and make the restore commend from there.
It’s looking like with the latest update that it will not prompt me for a seed phrase when I launched up from scratch. How do I enter in my phrase once the node is synced? Also, my main TOR address changed, which I may mean my channels break (no way for my peers to know my new address). I’ve never heard of updating a peer’s TOR address, so I am dearly hoping my node’s LND TOR can be restored too.
Can you help share how to build this GUI to get the channel.backup file from Umbrel?
I can still access my current Umbrel and need to restore lightning channels with Blixt mobile method.
I am a beginner of Linux cli and still not able to figure out how to access this with command line “/home/umbrel/umbrel/lnd/data/chain/bitcoin/mainnet/channel.backup”