Any tutorial on how to prune bitcoind?

[jza]

I've been looking for a nice tutorial on how to get bitcoind configured for VPS consumtotiuon, something like a Digitalocean-type or something more dedicated like Google Apps / OpenShift.

Tutorial for pruning bitcoind to be optimized for a small VPS consumption and maybe the development of a checkout either on PHP, NodeJS or Python/Django/Flask.

Regards.

[achow101]

It's super easy to prune a bitcoind. Just add

Code:

prune

to the bitcoin.conf file.

[jza]

Awesome, great stuff...

[belcher]

It's super easy to prune a bitcoind. Just add

Code:

prune

to the bitcoin.conf file.

It's

prune=550

Read these two links too
https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.12.0#wallet-pruning
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.11.0/doc/release-notes.md#block-file-pruning

[jza]

Thanks that clears it up.

[cloverme]

This will come in handy for sure... up to 81gb now. Either a new ssd drive or this command I suppose 

[Decoded]

Just to clarify, to what does the pruning command prune to? Will it basically start syncing from the time you start it up, 500 blocks back, 5 blocks back? Or until all confirmed txs have 1 condo or something?

[Relnarien]

Just to clarify, to what does the pruning command prune to? Will it basically start syncing from the time you start it up, 500 blocks back, 5 blocks back? Or until all confirmed txs have 1 condo or something?

Here you go.

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.11.0

Near the beginning is the part where pruning is discussed.