Migration from other nodes such as myNode or Raspiblitz

[pepinto]

It would be awesome if some user of myNode or Raspiblitz could migrate to Umbrel, in a simple process while keeping all relevant data, (blockchain and LN channels)

[mayankchhabra]

I agree it'd indeed be super handy. This is something we've considered in the past but dropped the idea eventually as there can be a lot of inconsistencies between drive formats, partition tables, the installed node implementations plus their versions etc, making the feature hard to maintain. Happy to reconsider if there's a significant demand for it.

[nolim1t]

Here is a reference point for raspibliz migration.

You'll need to be able to read the btrfs(1) filesystem which has some nice management features.

[Head]

imho one could edit

umbrel/scripts/umbrel-os/external-storage/mount

Line 163 in 40a4536

if [[ -f "${EXTERNAL_UMBREL_ROOT}"/.umbrel ]]; then

and add if [[ -f "${EXTERNAL_UMBREL_ROOT}"/.mynode ]]; then
not exactly sure what to do in that case. For sure skip the format command. Maybe it would be enough to do the Copying Umbrel install to external storage and after that exchange the /bitcoin/ folder with a symlink to /mynode/bitcoin/

[nmfretz]

Closing this old issue as we are currently not considering this due to the points noted by Mayank above. Please reopen if you feel strongly about making a case for this.