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Alright I need a little tech assistance with my Umbrel Node.

So my original node was terrible because I only had 4GB of RAM.

So I built a new raspberry pi with 8GB of RAM, got everything updated. Loaded the keys from the old node. Took the back-up file of all the channels from the original node and loaded it into the new node, but it's still showing 0 sats for the lighting wallet on the new hardware (but the bitcoin wallet is showing the correct balance). Any tips?
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Derek Ross 2y ago

your channel "backup" is going to force close all of your channels. you won't have anything on lightning once it's done syncing. it will all be onchain eventually. it takes a while.

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preston 2y ago

Oh dang. That sucks. Didn't realize that's what would happen. Thanks for the reply Derek!

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Derek Ross 2y ago

you're welcome. yeah, it's not really a channel backup. that's confusing, huh? it's more of a funds recovery in case of disaster. a way to get your funds out of Lightning and back on-chain.

you CAN migrate all of your channels from one node device to another. i just did all of this actually a couple weeks ago. i migrated from umbrel to another device. you need to go in via command line and backup your LND directory, mainly your channels.db and wallet.db files.