First of all, you can get a snapshot copy for RocksDB type on the following website based on region. This included Kusama, Polkadot and Testnet Westend.
https://www.1kvnode.com/snapshot
1 - What is a snapshot?
As validators! nodes can crush and a...
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Validator Node Snapshot
First of all, you can get a snapshot copy for RocksDB type on the following website based on region. This included Kusama, Polkadot and Testnet Westend.
1 - What is a snapshot?
As validators! nodes can crush and affect the APY of the Staking, it is very important for the validator to restore the node as soon as possible. Else, you will be losing your nominators. The main purpose of the snapshot is to allow specific restoration of the validator's infrastructure from taking 10-11 days to sync (it was 4 days when I started validation) complete the chain in Kusama or Polkadot. The restoration will allow the team to reduce the gap of the sync from 11 days to nearly somewhere
2 - 6 hours of waiting time.
Isn!Is that GREAT ??? 2 - Is this for me?
This works only for RocksDB, as parityDB is still under experimented, even on the latest 0.9.25 release, the paritydb stream has more problems than the rocksdb. This is pruned-1000 DB for validators only. If you are a new validator, I will suggest using RocksDB. the 1Kvnode team will have ParityDB available shortly.
Validated Environment:
• Ubuntu 22.x
• Docker 20.10.17
If you think that this is for you, then please assure that you did the following installation on your node.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install
snapd -y sudo
snap install lz4
2 - Next question, what do I need to know to restore?
At this moment, either you are using a physical node, virtual node or a container node. Your data is sitting on a specific path that varies depending on your node configuration. As example:
This unzipping will take a good 40 minutes. Once that it!s completed, you will need to rm the file to save space. rm -v polkadot_RocksDB_11064926.tar.lz4 You will need to know your path on where you downland the file. Advanced deployment - or the lazy way You can do this to save some space on your disk. curl -o - -L
The above process will take around 30 - 40 minutes depending on your location. You will need to start the service if you already setup, else, please follow the validator Setup Guide.
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I am Lucas Yoda, a Jedi of the Crypto Community, enjoying Polkadot and all the parachains. Also a Validator within the Community to support the core infrastructure.