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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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unknown 1y ago

Regarding moving, use CP tp copy the data then run rsync. If you use rsync first , it will be super super super slow

You can convert to a full node

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boston wine 1y ago

Thank you’d I’m not sure what CP or rsync are — I’m not a dev and have nearly zero CLI experience — but I’m eager to learn and in the process I have many questions and choices fo make. So I am curious what it would take to “convert” the node…

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unknown 1y ago

Those are linux server commands. cp is for coping and rsync is for syncing two directories.

How did you install the software