To help new nodes catch up faster without syncing blocks from scratch, we publish snapshots compressed in zstd format.
Some users requested a convenient way to start lbcd with the snapshot without manually downloading and uncompress the snapshot. This is handy for automated / integrated setup environment.
This can be done with:
- a wrapper script which downloads and uncompresses the snapshot before starting lbcd.
--snapshot cli flag, which takes a file or url.
Go has zstd package to do this.
Either implementation should support:
-
Download a snapshot from a URL
Uncompress from a downloaded snapshot
-
Download and uncompress on the fly, for example:
curl https://snapshots.lbry.com/blockchain/lbcd_snapshot_1178238_v0.22.100_2022-06-17.tar.zst | zstd -d | tar xf - -C ${LBCD_DIR}
Note: 2) support of --snapshot is preferred so we don't require installing zstd packages
To help new nodes catch up faster without syncing blocks from scratch, we publish snapshots compressed in zstd format.
Some users requested a convenient way to start lbcd with the snapshot without manually downloading and uncompress the snapshot. This is handy for automated / integrated setup environment.
This can be done with:
--snapshotcli flag, which takes a file or url.Go has zstd package to do this.
Either implementation should support:
Download a snapshot from a URL
Uncompress from a downloaded snapshot
Download and uncompress on the fly, for example:
Note: 2) support of
--snapshotis preferred so we don't require installingzstdpackages