I have a MINI pc (SER5 Win11 VMware) running windows 11 with VMware running umbrelos and the bitcoin node software. I have 89% of the coin base downloaded. I would like to make this same MINI PC a node without the overhead of Win11 and VMware. I have tried to move the bitcoin data to a usb drive but cant get it to show on the umbrelos terminal. LSBLK doesnt show the drive. I have the USB drive showing and on in VMware. I would rather not work with VMware as it’s very heavy use on the PC CPU. Any ideas that a nube could follow to get this done…? SSH maybe? Or copy to another PC running umbrelos… ???
There is a guide on migrating a lightning node that has a part for migrating the chain data.
You could spin up the new node and transfer the data over ssh.
I do want to mention, that i tried this once, and ended up spending the same amount of time having to reindex the whole chain on the new node as just downloading the chain from scratch.
To migrate a VMware virtual machine (VM) to a bare metal server, you first shut down the VM and export it as a VMDK disk image from the VMware environment.Next, you boot your bare metal machine with a live OS (like Clonezilla) or hypervisor installer and transfer the VMDK to the target physical drive, then restore the disk image.Finally, boot the bare metal machine from the newly restored disk, remove any VMware-specific drivers or tools then you are done.
Its probably easier just to start all over and use 'connect= ’ options in bitcoin node and connect to high speed nodes directly instead of doing it the slow way with P2P+tor+clearnet discoveries