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The commit kills support for deprecated ephemeral Boost messages: signed/unsigned transaction sets, pending transactions, reserve proofs, MMS messages, etc. It does NOT kill support for loading very old wallets in Boost format, that should be supported indefinitely. These messages were deprecated 5 years ago. Since then, we have had a hard fork to enable a new non-compatible transaction type (w/ view tags), and disable the old transaction type. This renders basically all of the aforementioned messages before that HF useless, with the possible exception of reserve proofs. This commit also cleans up dead inclusions of boost serialization headers. This commit is part of upstreaming Carrot/FCMP++. Killing support for Boost messages now means less boilerplate Boost serialization review for Carrot/FCMP++.
Monero Blockchain Utilities
Copyright (c) 2014-2024, 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