Starchiver


Run Starchiver 2025 to refresh all snapshots (Deletes old snapshots)

NOTE! It is very important your node is not running on the layer 0 cluster at any time during this process. 

Disable auto-restart 

sudo nodectl configure -e -d -cb
Press R to turn off Auto Restart, then Q to quit. 

Leave the Layer 1/0 cluster 

sudo nodectl leave -p dag-l1
sudo nodectl leave -p dag-l0

Download the latest script in the /tmp folder

cd /tmp
sudo curl -o starchiverT3-ext.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StardustCollective/Starchive-Extractor/main/starchiverT3-ext.sh
 
Make the script executable 

sudo chmod +x starchiverT3-ext.sh
 
Run Starchiver 2025 with the delete switch to wipe and refresh everything 

sudo ./starchiverT3-ext.sh -d
 
• Choose MainNet,
• Select the option for the snapshot data path (dag-l0),
 
Obsolete hashes At the end, you may see an option to Scan to Cleanup Obsolete Hash files: 
• Count of obsolete hash files,
• Disk space they used,
• Option to reclaim space

Once done do the following
 
Clear out java process so it starts fresh.

sudo kill -9 $(ps aux | grep '[j]ava' | awk '{print $2}')

Restart your node 

sudo nodectl restart -p all

Expect some DIP so let that finish up and confirm when the status reads Ready. Once Ready start L1 
and re-enable Auto-Start

Run Starchive cleanup only process

This is an assumption you saved the starchiverT3-ext.sh to /tmp.  If its in a different directory please cd /yaddayadda

sudo curl -o starchiverT3-ext.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StardustCollective/Starchive-Extractor/main/starchiverT3-ext.sh
cd /tmp
sudo ./starchiverT3-ext.sh --onlycleanup --data-path /var/tessellation/dag-l0/data

Automate Starchiver process so your node runs efficiently. (IGNORE FOR NOW---DOCUMENTATION IN PROGRESS)

Create the folder and place script in it

  1. You need a permanent place to put the script so do the following
  2. mkdir /scripts (This makes the directory)
  3. chown nodeadmin:nodeadmin /scripts  (This changes the owner to the nodeadmin account)
  4. chmod 770 (This allows the Root/Nodeadmin account to Read/Write/Execute)
  5. cp /tmp/<starchive script.sh> /scripts (This copies the script from the /tmp directory to /scripts

Crontab - Crontab is scheduler so you can launch scripts hourly/daily/weekly/monthly.

  1. type "sudo crontab -e" (Edit the crontab)
  2. Pick 1. nano unless you like other editors.

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Add the following to the bottom of the crontab to run the script at 10AM Sunday

0 10  0 /scripts/<starchiver script> -options

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It should look like this...