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Archival Snapshots

Algorand Archival Snapshots

Nodely maintains daily archival node/relay snapshots as a public S3 compatible bucket

  • Free for all use cases (even for service providers)
  • Ideal for bootstrapping test environments and emergencies
  • Quick: up to 10Gbps of download

Quick Start

Snapshots contain consistent, uncompressed copy of SQLite files as written by go-algorand node.

  1. Setup an archival node and stop it before restoring the content of (main/test/beta)net-v1.0 folder.
  2. Download and install AWS command line utils
  3. Go to your data directory - eg /var/lib/algorand/mainnet-v1.0
  4. (optional) run screen/tmux to make sure the download is not interrupted when you disconnect from the node
  5. Download the archive (replace mainnet with the network of your choice):
Terminal window
export NETWORK=mainnet
export LATEST=$(curl -s http://s3.nodely.io:9000/algo-snaps/$NETWORK/latest)


echo "Latest $NETWORK archival snapshot at $LATEST"
aws configure set s3.max_concurrent_requests 64
aws configure set default.s3.max_bandwidth 1000MB/s
aws --endpoint-url http://s3.nodely.io:9000 s3 cp s3://$LATEST ./ --recursive --no-sign-request

FAQ

> Cannot access some files

Download is restricted until complete snapshots are uploaded. Use the script above to download latest complete snapshot.

> Download is slow

Such is the nature of big file transfers over TCP. Try increasing s3.max_concurrent_requests value in the script above.

> Download is going to take more than a day

No worries, archival snapshots are kept for 3 days

> My node is not in sync immediately after download

Just let it catch up to the tip of the chain, it has a day or two worth of data to download from the network.

> My node is not responsive after start

You might have catchup file generation enabled - this requires building of the Merkle Tree before the node becomes responsive. It can take up to an hour.

> Where can I find indexer snapshots ?

Nodely does not yet provide vanilla indexer snapshots (working on it). Try our light indexer for now.

Pricing

Node snapshots are free and there are no plans to monetize the service.