Gnoland Snapshots - Apollo Validator

Latest Snapshot

NetworkGnoland Sapphire

Chain IDsapphire-1

Height348,436

Size8.4G (lz4 compressed)

Created2026-08-22T19:01:08Z

SHA256sha256:2b448ce32735b5904995a1e694590f297af2c800afc6094691e9199d6d8cff46

WARNING: Stop the node before restoring. If you are running a validator, back up priv_validator_state.json FIRST.

1Install lz4

Decompression utility for .tar.lz4 files.

sudo apt install liblz4-tool -y

2Stop the node

sudo systemctl stop gnoland

3Back up validator state (validators only)

cp ~/gno/gnoland-data/secrets/priv_validator_state.json ~/priv_validator_state.json.bak

4Download the snapshot

wget -O gnoland-snapshot.tar.lz4 https://snapshots.apollo-validator.eu/gnoland/snapshots/gnoland-sapphire-348436.tar.lz4

5Restore from snapshot

rm -rf ~/gno/gnoland-data/db ~/gno/gnoland-data/wal
lz4 -d gnoland-snapshot.tar.lz4 | tar -xf - -C ~/gno/gnoland-data/

6Restore validator state (validators only)

cp ~/priv_validator_state.json.bak ~/gno/gnoland-data/secrets/priv_validator_state.json

7Start the node

sudo systemctl start gnoland

8Verify and clean up

sudo systemctl status gnoland
rm -v gnoland-snapshot.tar.lz4

curl -s https://snapshots.apollo-validator.eu/api/gnoland/snapshots/latest | jq

Returns JSON with height, size, checksum, and download URL.