How would one move channels over to a new node without having to close all channels? Is this possible
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maybe not unless restoring an existing LND node in "another device"
Nope. If you are bare metal I haven’t found a way. If you use Start9 or Umbrel or other centralized provider, yes you can.
I use umbrel haven’t dove down bare metal mainly bc my coding/ssh skills are seriously lacking.
Do you happen to know how to do this via umbrel or should I ask umbrel telegram?
With Umbrel all you have to do is enter your seed phrase and your channel will get back up and sync.
Umbrel saves your channels information with your seed phrase.
Be careful not to have 2 running node with the same seed phrase and channels at the same time. This cannot work on multiple devices running at the same time.
It is possible, but unless you’re using node software which makes it easy, it’s really hard