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September 26, 2012, 02:04:31 AM
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I'm trying to restore my old backup, I just now noticed how big the %appdata%/Bitcoin directory actually is.

3.98GB     Shocked
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September 26, 2012, 02:06:22 AM
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You can download blockchain snapshots from:
http://eu1.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/
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September 26, 2012, 02:06:37 AM
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Copying it over to my new installation seemed to fix it and avoided downloading the whole blockchain again.   Kiss
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September 26, 2012, 02:08:00 AM
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You can download blockchain snapshots from:
http://eu1.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/

Nice, very useful. You could use a download accelerator and have the blockchain downloaded in few minutes/hours as opposed to days if downloading the regular way.
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October 13, 2012, 03:33:11 PM
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You can download blockchain snapshots from:
http://eu1.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/

Nice, very useful. You could use a download accelerator and have the blockchain downloaded in few minutes/hours as opposed to days if downloading the regular way.

Doesn't work for me. I install win32 bitcoin client, start it and leave running for a while, than quit it. Than I copy those 2 files contained in
.tar to data dir and start the client but it just continues downloading where it stopped on previous session. What exactly I'm missing here?

I'm doing this on a second computer I have - don't wanna torture HDD on it.

If you're running the newest version you can try to load the blockfile with the -loadblock=<file> option.
I think this happens because the download doesn't include a blkindex.dat or something.

Code:
bitcoin-qt.exe -loadblock=blk0001.dat -loadblock=blk0002.dat
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October 14, 2012, 10:21:35 PM
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Two files copied to D:\BTCData before starting client, BUT now it's still torturing HDD! Is it validating everything, same as if I just
used normal procedure, e.g. downloaded blocks from other nodes? Someone said that shouldn't happen, so now I'm confused a bit.

Yes, that's exactly what it does - it validates and indexes them completely as if they were downloaded from network. That's the only way to import blocks in a zero-trust way (i.e. without needing to trust the one giving you the file).

EDIT: you're importing the actually active data files. Don't do that. Move them or rename them, or import from a different directory.

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