Looking for help recovering my umbrel Bitcoin and lightning node. After a bad shutdown I can not access it at all. Big problem being that I don't really know what I'm doing.

⚑⚑100,000 sats bounty to the person who can help me recover it all ⚑⚑

PLEASE HELP!

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#[2] #[3]

#[4] Can someone help him out?

Have you tried reflashing your SD card again? That’s what fixed it for me the last time I had a similar issue

I'm on an old laptop. Wouldn't I lose my lightning channels and the sats associated?

In my case, umbrel had them backed up on the hard drive, so everything was recovered. The SD card is just the OS. I’d wait for confirmation from someone from umbrel, though because your setup is different from mine. I used a raspberry pi, not a laptop

Thanks

Can you SSH into it?

To ssh in, I'd have to use another computer running Linux on the same network yea?

Yes

windows works too

virtual Machine?

Regular windows with Putty. What OS are you running on your desktop?

Windows 10

Ok. Try using Putty and ssh into your laptop

Still DLing putty...

Ok got putty installed. But keep getting network error: connection timed out...

You can even do it from a phone if you have an SSH app.

Using a new instance of umbrel node...

Does that mean deleting and reinstalling umbrel completely?

No. Don’t delete anything. Just spin up a new node on a new machine, recover it there and copy over your bitcoin data.

That’s why I’m wondering if #[3]​ automatic channel backups are enabled for you and could let you do a full restore. https://nostr.build/av/nostr.build_dd3c755f465652c5fe720fea89186a6b9b66d5a6900b18c41713d20f4cfdbc51.mp4

Hmm interesting πŸ€”

If I could access it, that may work.

Do you have a backup of your channels? If you've been serving them to Amboss through Thunderhub, you can get your backups.

No, not sure how or where to find this

if you have the login password try to ssh into it and check the logs.