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Snapshot exporting 📸

Hardware requirements​

To export a mainnet snapshot, you need a setup with at least 16 GB of RAM. On a machine with rapid NVMe, the default export should take around 30 minutes.

The requirements for calibnet snapshots are lower, but it is still recommended to have at least 8 GB of RAM. The export should take less than a minute.

Running the node​

Wait until the node is fully synced. You can use the command:

forest-cli sync wait

Exporting the snapshot​

To export the snapshot with the defaults, run:

forest-cli snapshot export

The snapshot will be exported with 2000 recent stateroots to the current directory. The snapshot will be compressed.

For mainnet, you should expect a file of over 70 GB. For calibnet, you should expect a file of over 5 GB. Note that the snapshot size grows over time.

CLI reference​

Details on the forest-cli snapshot export command and its subcommands can be found at the CLI reference.