Topic: Whole Bitcoin Core 0.15 blockchain database on Google Drive - page 3. (Read 2342 times)

I'm not quite sure about multi thread parallel downloading from Google Drives, maybe they do not provide the option, maybe they do. Personally, I use a Firefox download Extension that allows reliable downloads. When I tried it, the downloading was on the max available speed all time

I have just once again tried downloading, and I do confirm that Google drive does not allow parallel multi threaded downloading. But! The multi threaded parallel downloading is not actually needed here.
My Firefox extension "Turbo Download Manager" was reliably downloading at the very maximal speed all the time! And that extension has never failed downloading for me (I have never got broken downloads with it

That's a really good idea to save to Google Drive.
But!
I tried to ascertain the direct link for the file - and there is non!
The direct link is a must-have, because it enables using multi-part download.
Example:
```
$ axel -n 50 -a
```
This will execute 50 parallel download stream which is the only sane approach
to download huge files.

Hello everyone)

As it is extremely important that there were as many FULL genuine Bitcoin Core nodes as ever possible, I have uploaded (into Google drives) the whole Bitcoin Core blockchain database (0.15.0.1 version format packed into 12x10Gb 7-zip multivolume archive) as of October, 24th, 2017.

The 1-9 parts of the archive are here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1hDozqK5OhbYy1BNTFsRHE5S0U

The 10th part is here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bwp9hqEINfq7emI0TE9HSWUzT3c

And the 11-12th parts are here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B04jj__m9bS6djlfc1F4RjM2RlE

I have tested the archive, so you may download safely.

To extract the Bitcoin Core blockchain database from the archive you should use any archive manager that supports 7z archives, the genuine 7z archive manager may be downloaded from here:
http://www.7-zip.org

After downloading all 12 parts launch the 7-zip manager, extract everything anywhere into your hard drive (where you are going to keep the blockchain, there must be at least 200Gb free space there).

Then launch Bitcoin Core 0.15.0.1 application, on request for the database folder point to the extracted folder.
The Core will (pretty fast) check integrity of the database, then it will start syncing the blockchain to its current state (it will start downloading and verifying blocks since October, 24th).

If you had already have your real Bitcoin  wallet before, just add into the root of the extracted folder your own 'wallet.dat' file.

Downloading the all ready database makes sense for people with a pretty 'thick' download bandwidth internet. They will get the all synced full Bitcoin Core node much faster, I think.
But users with pretty weak,  "thin" download internet bandwidth might gain almost no advantages, they might be better just start the Bitcoin Core 0.15 full node and let it sync itself as usual.


If you have any questions you are welcome to ask them