This is what I was suggesting in reply to complains on sync issues. Bootstrap.dat goes easy and weights a few megabytes. The best feature ever made by the hands of cryptogod.
What exactlky does one include in such a data archive?
An entire ~/.axon directory?
Or just the actual blocks data?
Or what?
-MarkM-
In windows or linux go to your wallets data dir in shell/cmd prompt.
then issue either
cat blk0001.dat blk0002.dat blk0003.dat > bootstrap.dat
or
copy /b blk0001.dat+blk0002.dat+blk0003.dat bootstrap.dat
If you only have 1 blk####.dat of course you dont put ones you dont have. Some people zip up everything but leave out the peers, conf & wallet. That makes for a WAY quicker sync since you dont have to import anything. Using a bootstrap you still have to let the client basically add it like its doing a rescan
The only difference is that cat will recreate a file filling in gaps but retaining an exact copy. And copy just pretty much appends them to each other. But thats it.
Hope that made sense lol :p