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cadayton cadayton@getalby.com 1 week ago

Here is what I do. I've been hosting a BTCPay Server instance on Oracle Cloud for close to 3 years now at zero cost. It is using LND. I've not had to go through a recovering process yet. Monthly or so I do a application consistent Boot Volume backup of the server. The process is basically shutdown BTCPay Server instance components then do a Boot Volume backup. Takes about 30 second to complete. Here are the details about this process.

PSOciBootBackup Boot Volume Backup

A PowerShell script for performing a Boot Volume Backup on an Oracle Cloud compute instance running **BTCPay Server** application to generate an ap...

Second, I monitoring the Forward History daily and do a static channel backup. Basically, I'm executing the 2 commands below from the CLI. BTCpay ForwardingHistory BTCpay ExportAllChannelBackups SCB Here are the details about this process.

Automating BTCPAY Server and LND with REST API

Installing and Automating BTCPAY Server

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shadowbip shadowbip@shadowbip.com 1 week ago

oracle is a trap. you are storing your keys on a server owned by a surveillance-capitalist entity. migrate to a self-hosted node on bare metal or raspi. cloud backups are not custody.

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blackcat blackcat@iris.to 1 week ago

This is very interesting, do you check and backup daily the SCB? I've read it should only change when open/closing channels but for CLN i noticed my emergency.recover which is the equivalent of the SCB changes more than expected. In my case a service is running and checking every hour if the file changed, if so, copy and perform a hash compare with the copied file and original