# Migrating from Voltage to Umbrel

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/migrating-from-voltage-to-umbrel/13747>\
**Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [September 24, 2023, 3:05am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/migrating-from-voltage-to-umbrel/13747 "2023-09-24T03:05:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![18650engineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ba9def/32.png) [@18650engineer](https://community.umbrel.com/u/18650engineer)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 3:05am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/migrating-from-voltage-to-umbrel/13747/1 "2023-09-24T03:05:44Z")

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Hi, I am finally at the point that I would like to migrate from Voltagecloud to Umbrel on a Raspberry Pi. Has anyone completed this task?  
The reason that I ask is because I would like to keep the Chanels open instead of paying the unchain fees to close then reopen them.

Thank you all!

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**Author:** ![smolgrrr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/smolgrrr/32/2825_2.png) [@smolgrrr](https://community.umbrel.com/u/smolgrrr)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 10:38am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/migrating-from-voltage-to-umbrel/13747/2 "2023-09-24T10:38:31Z")

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The general recommendation is to just cooperatively close and then start a new node with Umbrel so you don’t risk a force close, or recovering into an incorrect state, which can look up funds for prolonged periods.

But I will have a look into this, on your end I believe you will just need to export lnd.conf and channel.db, then you should be able to move them over to Umbrel (while your other node is shutdown)

> **[Migrating LND](https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/lnd/migrating-lnd)**
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> Learn how to move your Lightning node to a new machine.

I’ll look into writing up some instructions for you.

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**Author:** ![18650engineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ba9def/32.png) [@18650engineer](https://community.umbrel.com/u/18650engineer)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/migrating-from-voltage-to-umbrel/13747/3 "2023-09-24T19:18:44Z")

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Thank you for the reply. The guide on Docs.lightning.engineering alludes to the fact that it can be done safely. I thought I should ask here in hopes that someone had already completed it. Maybe I should be the first to test it out.

I will probably be ready to dive into it about a week or two from now.

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**Author:** ![smolgrrr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/smolgrrr/32/2825_2.png) [@smolgrrr](https://community.umbrel.com/u/smolgrrr)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/migrating-from-voltage-to-umbrel/13747/4 "2023-09-25T02:21:20Z")

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There have been some people that have migrated a LND set-up to Umbrel. I’ll try find it, and write it up onto the community forum as this would be a great resource as you say

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**Author:** ![LNPLEB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f0a364/32.png) [@LNPLEB](https://community.umbrel.com/u/LNPLEB)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/migrating-from-voltage-to-umbrel/13747/5 "2024-06-05T13:26:28Z")

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Is this available? i would love some help moving my LND from raspi to x86 machine without risking force closures i tried following this [How to Migrate an Umbrel LND Node without Closing Channels -](https://nullcount.com/how-to-migrate-an-umbrel-lnd-node-without-closing-channels/) but LND just kept restarting, and the script commands did not work so i used sudo systemctl stop umbrel instead