Lava Snapshots

To help validators to deploy or recover quickly,
we provide daily archives of the Blockchain from high-performance infrastructure.

File	Date	Size	Height	Binary	Download

Snapshots instructions

Quick instructions

systemctl stop lava.service
cp $HOME/.lava/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.lava/priv_validator_state.json.backup
mv $HOME/.lava/data $HOME/.lava/data.backup

curl -L ... | tar -Ilz4 -xf - -C $HOME/.lava

cp $HOME/.lava/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.lava/data/priv_validator_state.json
systemctl start lava.service

Detailled instructions

1. Install dependencies if needed

sudo apt install curl tar jq lz4 -y

2. Stop the node

systemctl stop lava.service

3. Remove old data

# Always backup priv_validator_state.json on validator node, to avoid double-sign
cp $HOME/.lava/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.lava/priv_validator_state.json.backup

If possible, keep this backup until your node is running
mv $HOME/.lava/data $HOME/.lava/data.backup

4. Download snapshot

curl -L ... | tar -Ilz4 -xf - -C $HOME/.lava

# Always restore priv_validator_state.json on validator node, to avoid double-sign
cp $HOME/.lava/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.lava/data/priv_validator_state.json

5. Start the node

systemctl start lava.service

6. Monitor your node

journalctl -u lava

# Is your node catching up?
curl http://localhost:26657/status | jq .result.sync_info

7. Clean-up

rm -rf $HOME/.lava/data.backup

Others Tools & Services

BlueStake contribute to Lava by offering several tools and services,
tailored for users, developers, and node operators.

Auto-Staking

We enable our stakers to automatically compound their rewards to maximize yields.

State-Sync

We help node operators to quickly boostrap a node by providing state-sync servers.

RPC & LCD endpoints

We provide public RPC and API endpoints to developers, node operators and users.

Peering

We provide seeds and live-peers to allow node operators to efficiently connect a node