lightning-recover -- Reinitialize Your Node for Recovery

SYNOPSIS

recover hsmsecret

DESCRIPTION

The recover RPC command wipes your node and restarts it with the --recover option. This is only permitted if the node is unused: no channels, no bitcoin addresses issued (you can use check to see if recovery is possible).

hsmsecret is either a codex32 secret starting with "cl1" as returned by hsmtool getcodexsecret, or a raw 64 character hex string.

NOTE: this command only currently works with the sqlite3 database backend.

• hsmsecret (string): Either a codex32 secret starting with cl1 as returned by hsmtool getcodexsecret, or a raw 64 character hex string.

RETURN VALUE

On success, an object is returned, containing:

• result (string) (always "Recovery restart in progress") (added v24.05)

AUTHOR

Rusty Russell <[email protected]> is mainly responsible.

SEE ALSO

lightning-hsmtool(7)

RESOURCES

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

lightning-cli recover -k "hsmsecret"="cl10leetsd35kw6r5de5kueedxgqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqdeuq7xuh94k9g"

{
  "id": "example:recover#1",
  "method": "recover",
  "params": {
    "hsmsecret": "cl10leetsd35kw6r5de5kueedxgqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqdeuq7xuh94k9g"
  }
}

{}

lightning-cli recover -k "hsmsecret"="6c696768746e696e672d31000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"

{
  "id": "example:recover#2",
  "method": "recover",
  "params": {
    "hsmsecret": "6c696768746e696e672d31000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
  }
}

{
  "result": "Recovery restart in progress"
}