Double DIY upgrade - From RPi and 1TB SSD

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I am fully aware that I am guilty as charged as an experimenter and I have asked for support with a RPi based Start9 server that does run Bitcoin Core. I get that the hardware isn’t up to the job now in 2026, I see that my SSD is at 98% and I know that my goose is cooked in this respect.

My last experiment was to spin up a new Start9 server on a 1litre class PC using Proxmox. This experiment worked just fine until I discovered that the 1TB NVMe SSD I had was in fact a fake and the sync with Bitcoin failed, disk was read only once it got to it’s actual max.

I do keep regular backups of my Start9 server so this really is a simple question.

If I restore from a backup created on my Raspberry Pi server to a Start9 instance running in Proxmox to a 2TB SSD (genuine this time!) is it likely to work?

Thanks in advance for your feedback

Garry

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Hi, yes you can do that but there are a few things to take into account when doing a restore form backup, mainly that any Lightning Channels you had open will close when restoring from backup.

If you have the RasPi still, then why not just do an upgrade rather than a full restore? Start9 | Upgrade Your Raspberry Pi

Or you could even transfer the data instead → Start9 | Transfer Data to a New Drive

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So grateful @OKIN
I am also guilty of not reading the documentation properly. This is in fact just what I hope to do. I wish to migrate my node to a Dell PC running Start9 in the Proxmox environment but migrate to a bigger and adequate drive at the same time.
Again, thank you.
I will post an update here once I have a try at this
Garry

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