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Support starting `lbcd` with snapshot
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.
--snapshotcli flag, which takes a file or url. Go has zstd package to do this.
Either implementation should support:
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Download a snapshot from a URL Uncompress from a downloaded snapshot
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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