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I took a #Bitcoin #Lightning Crash course this week. literally.

Duration: 1 week.

Number of hours: 20 hours.

Cost: $1500 + some collateral damage.

But I learned more about lightning than I learned over the past 8 months of running the node.

Course not recommended 😅

PV.

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Will remember that. Hopefully this never happens again.

It was probably corrupted channel.db nothing worked I tried everything.

Backups backups and more

I need to learn how to back up. Any recommendations?

Maybe a raid implementation?

Raid or manually to external storage. At the frequency that keeps you feeling sane.

How do you even back up channel.db? It changes every minute.

RAID lol, and build a watchtower in case your primary node goes down

Thanks. Will look into those.

For now lightning node backups are to safely force close and get your funds back on chain. Then you get to deal with re opening channels

But there are far more learned noderunners than I here

Yeah, that’s what seemed to work. And honestly not the worst way to go. It will only cost on chain fees. (Consider it back up fees).

I should recoup a good chunk of my node by the end of the week.

BTW, I was a bit shaken by all of this, I didn’t want to start a new node. This note made me realize it’s not that bad.

Learn and grow mate, build out a better node or... https://telegra.ph/Guide-to-building-a-Bitcoin-Super-Node-02-27 yay virtualization

You can have other modestriches act as a watchtower for you as well

True true, makes no sense to have your watchtower on the same power source. If 1 goes down they're both going down.