Subnostr

My biggest hurdle when running my own lightning node was always that, if the device itself failed, restoring the node to a new device required closing all of the channels

Is this still the case? Is there any solution to this, where a new device could be hotswapped without closing channels?

This is an absolutely critical feature if we intend to win the game of whackamole with the State

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kepford 1y ago

In order to avoid this backup your channels. This can be automated as well.

mrclownworld 1y ago

If you restore your backed up channels to a new device it still closes them all, in my understanding/experience

kepford 1y ago

I think the situation matters. I have moved my node to new hardware without closes and minimal downtime.

Brisket 1y ago

I moved my umbrel node to a new device & OS.

I basically installed umbrel on the new device & started syncing before stopping it & copying the old Bitcoin directory over.

All channels came back up.

As long as you didn't have a massive HD failure, you should be able to restore.