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RPC Testnet Snapshot​

This is likely the preferred approach for syncing, as opposed to downloading an archival snapshot, which is significantly larger and more special-purpose.

Before running the snapshot download script, you can set the following environment variables:

  • CHAIN_ID to either mainnet or testnet. (default: mainnet)
  • THREADS to the number of threads you want to use for downloading. Use 128 for 10Gbps, and 16 for 1Gbps (default: 128).
  • TPSLIMIT to the maximum number of HTTP new actions per second. (default: 4096)
  • BWLIMIT to the maximum bandwidth to use for download in case you want to limit it. (default: 10G)
  • DATA_PATH to the path where you want to download the snapshot (default: ~/.near/data)
  • BLOCK to the block height of the snapshot you want to download. If not set, it will download the latest snapshot.

Run this command to download the RPC Testnet snapshot:

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We will set the following environment variables:

  • DATA_PATH=~/.near/data - the standard nearcore path
  • CHAIN_ID=testnet - to explicitly specify the testnet data

RPC Testnet Snapshot » ~/.near/data:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fastnear/static/refs/heads/main/down_rclone.sh | DATA_PATH=~/.near/data CHAIN_ID=testnet bash

Archival Testnet snapshot​

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Time and storage intensive.

Be prepared for a large download and the inherent time constraints involved.

Before running the download script, you can set the following environment variables:

  • CHAIN_ID to either mainnet or testnet. (default: mainnet)
  • THREADS to the number of threads you want to use for downloading. Use 128 for 10Gbps, and 16 for 1Gbps (default: 128).
  • TPSLIMIT to the maximum number of HTTP new actions per second. (default: 4096)
  • DATA_TYPE to either hot-data or cold-data (default: cold-data)
  • BWLIMIT to the maximum bandwidth to use for download in case you want to limit it. (default: 10G)
  • DATA_PATH to the path where you want to download the snapshot (default: /mnt/nvme/data/$DATA_TYPE)
  • BLOCK to the block height of the snapshot you want to download. If not set, it will download the latest snapshot.

By default the script assumes the paths for the data:

  • Hot data (has to be on NVME): /mnt/nvme/data/hot-data

Run the following commands to download the Archival Testnet snapshot:

  1. Download the latest snapshot block height:

Latest archival testnet snapshot block:

LATEST=$(curl -s "https://snapshot.neardata.xyz/testnet/archival/latest.txt")
echo "Latest snapshot block: $LATEST"
  1. Download the HOT data from the snapshot. It has to be placed on NVME.
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We will set the following environment variables:

  • DATA_TYPE=hot-data - downloads the Hot data
  • DATA_PATH=~/.near/data - the standard nearcore path
  • CHAIN_ID=testnet - set to testnet network
  • BLOCK=$LATEST - specify the snapshot block

Archival Testnet Snapshot (hot-data) » ~/.near/data:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fastnear/static/refs/heads/main/down_rclone_archival.sh | DATA_TYPE=hot-data DATA_PATH=~/.near/data CHAIN_ID=testnet BLOCK=$LATEST bash