snapsnapdown is a Snapchain Snapshot Downloader.

I wrote it because I had some issues when I was setting up my node.

It gives you more flexibility than the embedded downloader:

- You can stop/start and it will pick up where you left.

- When restarting, local chunk sizes will be compared to remote, and if they do not match they will be re-downloaded

- Concurrent chunk downloads: I have found that sometimes a chunk may download at very low speeds, having concurrent downloads removes the bottleneck and results in faster overall download.

- Downloaded chunks are not automatically deleted.

- It looks nicer :-)

snapsnapdown is a Snapchain Snapshot Downloader.

I wrote it because I had some issues when I was setting up my node.

It gives you more flexibility than the embedded downloader:

- You can stop/start and it will pick up where you left.

- When restarting, local chunk sizes will be compared to remote, and if they do not match they will be re-downloaded

- Concurrent chunk downloads: I have found that sometimes a chunk may download at very low speeds, having concurrent downloads removes the bottleneck and results in faster overall download.

- Downloaded chunks are not automatically deleted.

- It looks nicer :-)

https://github.com/vrypan/snapsnapdown

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Will consider adding this to the new install/upgrade script for snapchain nodes.

It doesn't have to be everything in one monolithic container. Actually, you may want to consider moving the rust "downloader" to a separate tool.

- This is how you start your node.
- If you don't want to start from zero, use this command to download a snapshot, before starting the node.

Very cool. If this was in rust, we'd merge it into snapchain :)

We're working on improving this, but thank you for building this in the meantime.