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The blockchain prunes seven eighths of prunable tx data. This saves about two thirds of the blockchain size, while keeping the node useful as a sync source for an eighth of the blockchain. No other data is currently pruned. There are three ways to prune a blockchain: - run monerod with --prune-blockchain - run "prune_blockchain" in the monerod console - run the monero-blockchain-prune utility The first two will prune in place. Due to how LMDB works, this will not reduce the blockchain size on disk. Instead, it will mark parts of the file as free, so that future data will use that free space, causing the file to not grow until free space grows scarce. The third way will create a second database, a pruned copy of the original one. Since this is a new file, this one will be smaller than the original one. Once the database is pruned, it will stay pruned as it syncs. That is, there is no need to use --prune-blockchain again, etc.
Monero Blockchain Utilities
Copyright (c) 2014-2018, The Monero Project
Introduction
The blockchain utilities allow one to import and export the blockchain.
Usage:
See also each utility's "--help" option.
Export an existing blockchain database
$ monero-blockchain-export
This loads the existing blockchain and exports it to $MONERO_DATA_DIR/export/blockchain.raw
Import the exported file
$ monero-blockchain-import
This imports blocks from $MONERO_DATA_DIR/export/blockchain.raw (exported using the
monero-blockchain-export tool as described above) into the current database.
Defaults: --batch on, --batch size 20000, --verify on
Batch size refers to number of blocks and can be adjusted for performance based on available RAM.
Verification should only be turned off if importing from a trusted blockchain.
If you encounter an error like "resizing not supported in batch mode", you can just re-run
the monero-blockchain-import command again, and it will restart from where it left off.
## use default settings to import blockchain.raw into database
$ monero-blockchain-import
## fast import with large batch size, database mode "fastest", verification off
$ monero-blockchain-import --batch-size 20000 --database lmdb#fastest --verify off
Import options
--input-file
specifies input file path for importing
default: <data-dir>/export/blockchain.raw
--output-file
specifies output file path to export to
default: <data-dir>/export/blockchain.raw
--block-stop
stop at block number
--database <database type>
--database <database type>#<flag(s)>
database type: lmdb, memory
flags:
The flag after the # is interpreted as a composite mode/flag if there's only one (no comma separated arguments).
The composite mode represents multiple DB flags and support different database types:
safe, fast, fastest
Database-specific flags can be set instead.
LMDB flags (more than one may be specified):
nosync, nometasync, writemap, mapasync, nordahead
Examples:
$ monero-blockchain-import --database lmdb#fastest
$ monero-blockchain-import --database lmdb#nosync
$ monero-blockchain-import --database lmdb#nosync,nometasync