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#node questions

1. You decide to run a pruned node. Let’s say 10 GB limit. The time chain weighs ~575 GB (if I remember correctly). Node/computer’s available storage is around 250 GB.

You expect you may want to convert the pruned node into a full node in the future. It won’t fit on your computer, so you plan to buy an external drive.

Is it relatively simple to “move” your node’s data to the larger storage hardware and re-download the (full) chain, without pruning?

Is it better to simply spin up another node and have two? ✌️
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Nice and Kind Vic 1y ago

I have a pruned node for travel, and full nodes that i can access remotely if necessary

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boston wine 1y ago

That’s legit. Now if your full node were simply run on a laptop with a huge amount of storage, would that be a relatively straightforward “full node for travel”? (Obviously that would be absurdly costly if the only need was a big node, for example, the 1TB MacBooks are thousands of dollars 🫠).

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Nice and Kind Vic 1y ago

Yes. You could reduce the costs with an external drive, for just bitcoin data