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| # Back-up the .lnd dir | |
| `cp -r .lnd/ .lnd.old` | |
| # copy the .lnd dir to another machine that runs a non-pruned full node | |
| `scp [source] [target]` | |
| # Install GO | |
| `wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.12.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz` | |
| `sha256sum go1.12.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz | awk -F " " '{ print $1 }'` | |
| # output should be `3924819eed16e55114f02d25d03e77c916ec40b7fd15c8acb5838b63135b03df` | |
| `tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.12.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz` | |
| `export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin` | |
| # clone the btcwallet repo | |
| `git clone https://github.com/btcsuite/btcwallet $GOPATH/src/github.com/btcsuite/btcwallet` | |
| # run dropwtxmgr | |
| `cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/btcsuite/btcwallet` | |
| `GO111MODULE=on go install ./dropwtxmgr` | |
| `cd $GOPATH/bin` | |
| `dropwtxmgr --db=/path/to/data/chain/bitcoin/mainnet/wallet.db` | |
| # Restart lnd, it should run a full rescan from genesis block, that might be a bit long though (24 hours on my machine) |
Haha, yes, it makes you realise that lightning is still hardcore now
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Thanks for this, being an absolute newbie with Go and linux in general, this gave me a starting point.
In my case, I wanted to recover rescan an lnd instance using an existing mainnet btcpay deployment that I use for testing. Since the docker images used are alpine based, I ran into some trouble with the guide.
For running on alpine, I first ran before your guide:
and instead of
I did:
How long does the drop command take? Mine has been stuck there for a few mins now with no output:
Drop all btcwallet transaction history? [y/N] yThis is a horrible experience, no user should be needing to do this painful technical stuff to fix their lnd.