If you set up and maintain Snapchain nodes, check out these two tools:

- sc-mon is the simples way to quickly check your node's sync status.
- snapdown is a snapshot downloader that gives you more control (and it's faster than using the default snapshot download)

If you set up and maintain Snapchain nodes, check out these two tools:

- sc-mon is the simples way to quickly check your node's sync status.
- snapdown is a snapshot downloader that gives you more control (and it's faster than using the default snapshot download)

https://github.com/vrypan/sc-mon
https://github.com/vrypan/snapdown

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How long does it typically take for a brand new node to catch up?

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1. Snapshot download time: This depends mostly on your internet connection speed. The total download is ~300GB if I remember correctly.

2. Extracting the snapshot: This depends mostly on your CPU and disk write speed. My M4 MBP is much faster at this than my RPi5.

1+2 took my RPi5 (16GB, plenty of SSD space) ~3h a couple of days ago.

3.  Snapshots are usually ~1 day old as far as I can tell, so after you start your node with the extracted snapshot, it will take a few hours (sometimes more than a few) to get up to speed with the rest of the network.

I have been watching a resync of Pinata's node, and it seems to have been stuck for weeks: https://hub.pinata.cloud/v1/info

I tried to build a node before, and it seemed to take forever to catch up.

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Without a snapshot, it could take weeks to catch up.