Topic: Some help would be great as I am lost. (Read 122 times)

Hello.

Since you have Ubuntu, you can do the following.

Open a terminal and navigate to any directory you want. Let's say /home//Desktop

then:


Now you have bitcoin binaries installed on your device.

You must know plug your external SSD on your Ubuntu machine.

Let's say the SSD is mounted on /media/

If you have all the blockchain data on the SSD and not in a sub-folder, you can simply run

Code:

bitcoind --datadir=/media/

This will run bitcoin using the data from where you set it.

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Of course, on Ubuntu you can also use this guide, so you can have a GUI for your Bitcoin Core. Then you can set the blockchain directory once it loads, just like you did on Windows, through the GUI.

Hello,

Seems you guys all understand the issues I was having and have given me the answers I need,

I will try working thru some of these ideas and then report back.

I'm glad to hear that the blockchain files are probably fine and there won't be a need to re-synch


One person mentioned that I could probably start over in Linux on my SSD but use the same directory as I already have a copy of the blockchain.  So, I can put a bootable OS on the external SSD and run bitcoin core and electrs on this?  That would be pretty cool I guess because then I could plug it into my laptop too if I was traveling.

It seems the other alternative is continue with windows and my windows installation, as the core files are all in the ssd, and use wsl (this is what I was using the other day actually, not virtual box, but I had to enable virtualization in BIOS)

I'm not a Windows user so not much help here. But I would like to share my modest knowledge. I followed these instructions to set up a full node behind Tor:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Setting_up_a_Tor_hidden_service

I used "Linux Method 2". The page also describes how to do this with Windows.

You have more plans, but maybe this will give you a start.

If you can invest a bit of money in the project, you could consider purchasing a suitable v-server. This should cost between 10$ and 20$ for a Linux machine per month. Windows is probably more expensive.

I am also a Windows user and while it's always said that Linux is much ore secure than Windoze, if you are not familiar with it you can make mistakes and end up worse than with Windoze.
I am not familiar with Samurai, plus my setup works only for my computer, but I think it's not difficult to extend it to work on LAN, so for your Android too.

I've made 2 tutorials for Windows users, one for Electrs, installed on a Linux subsystem in Windows, and another for Fulcrum (which is also an Electrum Server, but it's Windows exe).
Maybe it worth taking a look to that direction too.


This being said, I'll add that even if you reinstall everything under a fresh Linux or Windows, the blockchain files should be still good, you just have to make sure the bitcoin daemon uses those data folders/those files.
Plus: from my experience WSL is faster than a Virtual Machine (Virtual Box).

Well, it's way safer if you run a Bitcoin node in a Linux OS.
Based on Samourai Dojo documentation they didn't mention Windows OS but Linux environment so I think it's time-consuming if you still want to recover corrupted data from a virtual machine and fix them.

It would be better to start over again but this time instead of using a Virtual Machine use an extra hard drive/SSD to install Linux OS and Bitcoin node.

Edit:
I found a guide that I think that fits to your needs if you want to stay using Windows you will need an extra device to install a Bitcoin full node server.
Read this guide "[GUIDE] The simplest Full Node guide ever. [GUIDE]"

What I want is a full node that is also a private server so I can have the blue toggle in sparrow wallet and a private block explorer.  Beyond that I would also like my node to be used as a samourai dojo so i can have my wallet on my android as well.

I already have bitcoin core sync'd on my computer it finished today, but i was dumb, i downloaded the windows installer, should i start over, reformat my ssd and try again

I'd like to use a private block explorer and it would be really good to have samourai dojo on my machine.

I'm using Win 10, I am a windows user,
but I got ubuntu working today, sort of, but then the virtual disk corrupted as I was trying to get electrs going.  idk what i did that caused this.  I spent a few hrs toying in ubuntu before it broke and partially downloaded a bunch of crap and obviously have no idea where it was saved to as I thought i made a partition on my ssd from inside the terminal.

I tried following guides for both samourai and electrs.  I was not able to see it through to completion.  Likely have made a mess now, a big mess.  I don't know where the ubuntu home folder was with all the partially downloaded / builds.  I also think I might have created a partition on my SSD that was already running bitcoin core and don't know how to check or revert this

So what I have is a 2 TB Samsung T7 SSD formated to exFAT with the blockchain on it.

It seems I have a full node as it has sync'd with the blockchain v25.0


In Hyper V manager in windows I deleted the Ubuntu virtual machine that went corrupt, there is still a WSL virtual machine.

Should I start over completely?  I have this feeling like my bitcoin core for windows is kind of useless if I want these personal server-type thingies.


this is an enormous barrier to entry, somebody pls help me, i can pay u in sats .  I could reformat the SSD and try to re-do the whole business in ubuntu if I had to, but would rather not.