Are there any blockchain to download?
WTB slimcoin..
price PM thx.
I managed to nuke my copy of the blockchain during development shenanigans. I didn't notice for a while as I had to close down the started-on-bootup Qt client in order to run the version I was developing. Basically, it just wouldn't synch, the log immediately started filling up with orphans and endless consensus disagreements.
I totally failed to persuade the client to read a copied-down blk0001.dat, even if renamed as bootstrap.dat. In the end, I simply ssh'd into my remote-host server, ran
cd ~/.slimcoin; tar -zcf /tmp/slmblock.tar.gz blk* database, copied
that and it worked, even going from the remote server's Ubuntu 14.04 to my laptop's 16.04. Seems to need the index, dunno why. It's a bit inelegant but what the hey.
So, if you're on an Ubuntu box, there's a solution, might even work on other distros. I've set up a cron job on the server to make a daily tar gzip dump.
https://minkiz.co/noodlings/slm/slm-datadir-blockfiles.tar.gz (655M)
I can't do much with Windows native (IIRC, wine-hosted is no good because the db files are still wrongly endian). OS X (again, IIRC) is okay using Linux bzips. I have created a zip file just in case:
https://minkiz.co/noodlings/slm/slm-datadir-blockfiles.zipThere is, ofc, linearize, the preferred solution, which I'm working on. The trouble is that it's so slooooow (I mean
days) that it's computationally infeasible on my local kit. So I shovelled it up to the server and let it run there but it just silently failed after some time. (I suppose I should check whether PyPy makes any difference).
Cheers
Graham
Edit: corrected archive compression & file extension