What do I do? My lightning node from MyNode inside a VM had its drive corrupted/fail a long time ago. I have the original seed.
Using updated new laptop using Citadel node package, how do I recover? I had lots of sats on there.
Discussion
#asknostr
Hopefully your peers were able to force close channels they had open with you.
With only the seed you may be able to restore the onchain portion, but not the channels.
If you have channel backup files from that time backed up somewhere, then you may have more options. For example
```
lncli create -multi_file=channel.backup
```
or
```
lncli restorechanbackup -multi_file=channel.backup
```
Refer to https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/recovery.md#off-chain-recovery
Thank you. Questions:
-if the peers did force close, would I automatically see it on-chain thus not having to worry about channel backup?
-How likely is it the peers force-closed simply because my node was offline for well over one year?
-Would node packages a couple of years back auto generate channel backups as a default or would the user need to do something to set it up? Im pretty sure I never generated a channel backup from anything I explicitly did.
I might be able to see some small files in filesystem on old dying VM disk node but clonezilla cannot copy the disk, and fsck fails.
Have you searched your node on amboss to see how many channels are still “open?” (Type your node in amboss.space and click on “channel map”)
If it has been down over a year I would imagine your peers have already force closed and the funds are back on chain.
How do I get "name" or address or whatever identifier of my old/bad node? It doesnt/cant sync due to disk corruption & in efforts to recover the chain and also index were wiped. Will any of the "apps" on the node still work without any sync/bitcoin?
Use a tool called chantools with your seed you can sweep all the dead channel closes to a new address
Ok, so I'll install citadel node on new laptop, i think i put in seed somewhere in beginning and wait a week or so til it is synced and then use chantools on new node?
No need for a new node, on your current PC install chantools, input your seed and it will sweep to any chain address, no node required