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Expand Up @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ You may need to install wget first: `brew install wget`. Alternatively, use the
:::

```terminal
$ wget -c https://archive.hiro.so/mainnet/stacks-blockchain/mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.gz
$ wget -c --progress=bar:force:noscroll https://archive.hiro.so/mainnet/stacks-blockchain/mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.gz
$ wget -c https://archive.hiro.so/mainnet/stacks-blockchain/mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.zst
$ wget -c --progress=bar:force:noscroll https://archive.hiro.so/mainnet/stacks-blockchain/mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.zst
```

**Advantages:**
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```terminal
$ curl --continue-at - --retry 10 --retry-delay 5 --retry-max-time 0 \
--progress-bar \
--output mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.gz \
https://archive.hiro.so/mainnet/stacks-blockchain/mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.gz
--output mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.zst \
https://archive.hiro.so/mainnet/stacks-blockchain/mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.zst
```

**Advantages:**
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#### Download file to current directory

```terminal
$ gcloud storage cp gs://archive.hiro.so/mainnet/stacks-blockchain/mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.gz .
$ gcloud storage cp gs://archive.hiro.so/mainnet/stacks-blockchain/mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.zst .
```

#### OR stream directly to extraction (saves disk space but slower due to sequential download)
#### OR stream directly to extraction (saves disk space but slower due to sequential download, zst extension requires zstd installed)

```terminal
$ gcloud storage cp gs://archive.hiro.so/mainnet/stacks-blockchain/mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.gz - | tar -xz
$ gcloud storage cp gs://archive.hiro.so/mainnet/stacks-blockchain/mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.zst - | tar -I zstd -xv
```
Or for older backups with the tar.gz extention:
```terminal
$ gcloud storage cp gs://archive.hiro.so/mainnet/stacks-blockchain/mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.gz - | tar -zxv
```

**Advantages:**
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2. **Verify the download:**
```terminal
$ echo "$(cat mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.sha256 | awk '{print $1}') mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.gz" | shasum -a 256 -c
$ echo "$(cat mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.sha256 | awk '{print $1}') mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.zst" | shasum -a 256 -c
```

3. **Extract the archive:**
3. **Extract the archive (requires zstd-tool to be installed):**
```terminal
$ tar -I zstd -xvf mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.zst
```
Or for older backups with the tar.gz extention:
```terminal
$ tar -zxvf mainnet-stacks-blockchain-latest.tar.gz -C /target/directory
```
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