Revision as of 16:15, 27 February 2019

Your Lightning node or wallet will have keys. Look at Backup for instructions.

Bitcoin key (on-chain)

A wallet and lightning node usually hold bitcoins to open channels. If you backup this key you can get your on-chain balance back.

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Alert! Be careful!

The mnemonic seed is NOT enough to recover funds from channels if something goes horribly wrong, you’ll need the latest chan state.

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 A [[Wallet|wallet]] and [[Node|lightning node]] usually hold bitcoins to open channels. If you backup this key you can get your on-chain balance back.
-Making backups is not easy. Probably just take your wallet-file... See [https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/732 github for more info].
+{{ALERT|The mnemonic seed is NOT enough to recover funds from channels if something goes horribly wrong, you’ll need the latest chan state.}}
-If you’re putting a lot of money on your Lightning routing node, please use a reliable hard drives (with mirroring).
-'''The mnemonic seed is NOT enough to recover funds from channels if something goes horribly wrong, you’ll need the latest chan state.'''
-= Data Loss Protection =
-[[Data loss protection]]
-= Channel information =
-== LND ==
-Tip for now, just backup the whole ~/.lnd directory.
-{{TODO|Write how to backup lnd}}
-There is work underway to make backup better in 6.0: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1364
-= Commitment revocation private key =
-Every commitment transaction has a unique commitment revocation private-key value that allows the other peer to spend all outputs immediately: revealing this key is how old commitment transactions are revoked. To support revocation, each output of the commitment transaction refers to the commitment revocation public key.