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65 sats \ 12 replies \ @SimpleStacker 13 Jan \ on: 1 terabyte hard drive cliff bitcoin

I'm worried about this myself. I am going to have to upgrade my node's hardware within one year, maybe less. I have lightning channels on it. I'm going to need a guide on how to migrate a bitcoin fullnode + lightning node to new hardware.

50 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin 13 Jan

FFS is so fucking simple that even a kid can do it... Just grab an image cloning software like Acronis for example, put the both disks together and start the cloning, sector by sector. Done.

19 sats \ 3 replies \ @lightcoin 13 Jan

Just grab an image cloning software like Acronis for example, put the both disks together and start the cloning, sector by sector. Done.

gonna want to be real careful of this with the lightning nodes, so there is no concern about force close or justice transactions. maybe better for a novice to close the channels and reopen them on the new node once it is set up.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 13 Jan

no, cloning a disk have nothing to do with LN channels. Your node is offline anyways and you are not running both copies in the same time.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @lightcoin 13 Jan

if you don't run both at the same time then there is no justice tx risk. but if your node is offline then you cannot respond to cooperative close requests which risks a force close.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 13 Jan

Are you going to clone a disk in more than 2 weeks? LOL

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 13 Jan

Did they read my guides first?

Not yet but I will! When the time comes...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 13 Jan

Yeah, yeah, yeah, haha, we’ll be fine, we’ll figure it out

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @jasonb OP 13 Jan

Yeah, personally it's my lightning node that I'm worried about. That's going to be tricky. Otherwise, in my case, I'd just spin it down and spin up a new node on a bigger drive.

50 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 13 Jan

So I wrote all those damn guides for nothing...

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb OP 13 Jan

Darth guides are quite helpful. That’s (migrating the node to a different drive or machine) just a new part of the journey for me. In other words, haven’t got to that problem, so I haven’t go to that guide. But that’s just me, (and apparently @SimpleStacker) my main point with this post doesn’t have to do with my node or lightning. It’s about what people who can’t afford it are going to do to run full, not-necessarily-lightning nodes.

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 13 Jan

That's why I always said: learn to be a good node runner and start be the "community or family LN bank". https://darth-coin.github.io/merchants/private-banks-over-ln-en.html It is absolutely NOTHING wrong with that.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 13 Jan

I am still learning, still a padawan when it comes to lightning.