# Help recover lightning channels

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/help-recover-lightning-channels/16532>\
**Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [April 22, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/help-recover-lightning-channels/16532 "2024-04-22T14:15:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![johnanisere](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/johnanisere/32/5545_2.png) [@johnanisere](https://community.umbrel.com/u/johnanisere)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/help-recover-lightning-channels/16532/1 "2024-04-22T14:15:54Z")

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I stopped running my lightning node on August 17, 2023, I have now turned it on again and upgraded to umbrelOS 1.1. While trying to recover my old channels using the backup file provided by the Umbrel Lightning node application, I keep getting this error → `Unable to recover channel backup, unable to unpack chan backup: could not derive private key for legacy channel revocation root format: unable to derive private key`

What can I do?

 ![Screenshot 2024-04-22 at 15.04.07](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/6/68825f46f1c8031285d4e5198835ce38f42ff56e.png)

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**Author:** ![lazydrone](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/lazydrone/32/5490_2.png) [@lazydrone](https://community.umbrel.com/u/lazydrone)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/help-recover-lightning-channels/16532/2 "2024-07-24T18:02:51Z")

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I’m getting the same message. Did you ever figure this out?