getemergencyrecoverdata

getemergencyrecoverdata -- Command to fetch data from the emergency.recover file

SYNOPSIS

getemergencyrecoverdata

DESCRIPTION

Command added in v24.11.

The getemergencyrecoverdata RPC command is used to fetch data from the emergency.recover file, which contains encrypted data.

RETURN VALUE

On success, an object is returned, containing:

  • filedata (hex): The raw, hex-encoded, emergency.recover file
  • can_create_penalty (boolean): If false, you are using legacy file version, which can not create penalty transactions, kindly delete emergency.recover and restart the node! (added v26.06)
  • backed_up_channel_ids (array of hashs) (added v26.06):
    • (hash, optional): Channel IDs of channels backed up inside emergency.recover

AUTHOR

Aditya [email protected] is mainly responsible.

SEE ALSO

lightning-getsharedsecret(7)

RESOURCES

Main web site: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning

EXAMPLES

Example 1:

Request:

lightning-cli getemergencyrecoverdata
{
  "id": "example:getemergencyrecoverdata#1",
  "method": "getemergencyrecoverdata",
  "params": {}
}

Response:

"emergencyrecoverdata0101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101"

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