How to generate a snapshot
You can force a running nodeos
instance to create a snapshot by using the create_snapshot
RPC API call supported by the producer_api_plugin
. This will create a snapshot file in the data/snapshots
directory. Snapshot files are written to disk with the name pattern *snapshot-\<head_block_id_in_hex\>.bin*
.
[[info | Snapshots Location]]
| By default, snapshots are written to the data/snapshots
directory relative to your nodeos
data directory. See the -d [ --data-dir ]
option.
If your nodeos
instance is running locally, the below command will request nodeos
to create a snapshot:
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8888/v1/producer/create_snapshot
[[info | Getting other blocks.log
files]]
| You can also download a blocks.log
file from third party providers.