I have figured out how to get my backup id and the most recent backup file the pops up when i get it in ssh is older then the ones that Email support has sent me, so I dont know if my node was down longer then i thought but i have the file name if that helps, ive tried 4 different backup files so far but i receive the error “Unable to recover channel backup, unable to unpack chan backup: chacha20poly1305: message authentication failed” so i dont think they are the right files. Has anyone else had this problem or a solution? Thank you for any help
I also have this exact same issue. “Unable to recover channel backup, unable to unpack chan backup: chacha20poly1305: message authentication failed”. Does anyone know how to resolve this one please? It’s really important. I have the backup files, but can’t restore.
It might not be the actual solution but I saw on another community post with the same error message (I need Backup Online - #10 by Piradoxlanieve) they uninstalled and reinstalling the lighting app a few times ( the post says about 10 times, i did it twice and it showed all my backup files availabe to use and there was no error message.
Yes, fixed for me by reinstalling and restarting. Had to try multiple time, it’s very random.
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Yeah its very random and I knew what cause it hopefully it gets solved
What is the cause of it? Do you think Umbrel will release a fix soon?
This is a complete guess because im not a dev or even work for umbrel so take it with a grain of salt… but from what i understand your backup is encrypted and you need your seed to decrypt it, so with that i think when you lightning node hashs the encryption password to unlock the backupfile its generating something different from the original hash when the backup file was made but thats just a guess because the error message says “unable to unpack chan backup” to me means it cant unlock it
And i have zero clue if/when they will release a patch, Sorry i wish i had more info