Polkadot chain database snapshots

A collection of database snapshots for Polkadot, Kusama, Westend, and Rococo relaychains and system parachains.

Available in two flavors: archive and pruned. Archive database retains the full history of blocks. Pruned keeps only the state of the past 256 or 1000 blocks (set --state-pruning 256 or --state-pruning 1000 flag on your node).

How to use

We recommend using the rclone (>1.63.0) utility to download a snapshot. Install it first by following the instructions on the official download page.

Download the snapshot:

export SNAPSHOT_URL="https://snapshots.polkadot.io/[snapshot_name]/[date]" # Use URL from the table below
export PATH_TO_DB_FOLDER="$HOME/.local/share/polkadot/chains/[chain_path]" # Replace by folder name (same as the id field in chainspec)
rclone copyurl $SNAPSHOT_URL/files.txt files.txt
rclone copy --progress --transfers 20 --http-url $SNAPSHOT_URL --no-traverse --http-no-head --disable-http2 --inplace --no-gzip-encoding --size-only --retries 6 --retries-sleep 10s --files-from files.txt :http: $PATH_TO_DB_FOLDER
rm files.txt

Available Snapshots

Chain Version Timestamp Last block Size DB Pruning URL (not a valid page, use with the above script)
kusama-asset-hub-paritydb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T03:20:39Z 9739429 286.75 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/kusama-asset-hub-paritydb-archive/20250619-032123
kusama-asset-hub-rocksdb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T04:03:10Z 9739804 288.47 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/kusama-asset-hub-rocksdb-archive/20250619-040335
kusama-bridge-hub-paritydb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T05:15:52Z 5955029 181.46 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/kusama-bridge-hub-paritydb-archive/20250619-051631
kusama-bridge-hub-rocksdb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T06:07:41Z 5.95528E+6 165.53 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/kusama-bridge-hub-rocksdb-archive/20250619-060812
kusama-coretime-rocksdb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T07:03:09Z 2946124 64.67 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/kusama-coretime-rocksdb-archive/20250619-070334
kusama-paritydb-prune 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-07T00:53:00Z 28683156 730.59 GB 256 https://snapshots.polkadot.io/kusama-paritydb-prune/20250607-005335
kusama-people-rocksdb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T07:33:40Z 4590141 98.94 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/kusama-people-rocksdb-archive/20250619-073412
kusama-rocksdb-prune 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T02:44:03Z 28855193 785.29 GB 256 https://snapshots.polkadot.io/kusama-rocksdb-prune/20250619-024527
paseo-muse-paritydb-archive 1.15.2-unknown 2025-06-18T23:51:29Z 4279434 130.02 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/paseo-muse-paritydb-archive/20250618-235215
paseo-paritydb-prune 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-15T23:37:46Z 6884178 123.45 GB 256 https://snapshots.polkadot.io/paseo-paritydb-prune/20250615-233848
polkadot-asset-hub-paritydb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-01T07:05:09Z 8968282 293.46 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/polkadot-asset-hub-paritydb-archive/20250601-070538
polkadot-asset-hub-rocksdb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T08:02:30Z 9096213 290.29 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/polkadot-asset-hub-rocksdb-archive/20250619-080259
polkadot-bridge-hub-paritydb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T09:15:30Z 5411918 218.04 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/polkadot-bridge-hub-paritydb-archive/20250619-091603
polkadot-bridge-hub-rocksdb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T10:10:18Z 5412178 204.13 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/polkadot-bridge-hub-rocksdb-archive/20250619-101052
polkadot-collectives-paritydb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T11:13:26Z 6600469 143.02 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/polkadot-collectives-paritydb-archive/20250619-111400
polkadot-collectives-rocksdb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T12:07:23Z 6600726 126 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/polkadot-collectives-rocksdb-archive/20250619-120851
polkadot-coretime-rocksdb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T14:36:16Z 2031911 41.05 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/polkadot-coretime-rocksdb-archive/20250619-143650
polkadot-mythical-paritydb-archive 1.17.1-unknown 2025-06-16T16:13:08Z 5718593 699.01 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/polkadot-mythical-paritydb-archive/20250616-161421
polkadot-mythical-rocksdb-prune 1.17.1-unknown 2025-06-19T13:58:51Z 5759524 81.79 GB 256 https://snapshots.polkadot.io/polkadot-mythical-rocksdb-prune/20250619-135944
polkadot-paritydb-prune 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T04:56:08Z 2.651284E+7 683.94 GB 256 https://snapshots.polkadot.io/polkadot-paritydb-prune/20250619-045701
polkadot-people-rocksdb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T14:02:48Z 2359684 46.15 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/polkadot-people-rocksdb-archive/20250619-140314
polkadot-rocksdb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-16T06:42:08Z 26461905 2746.86 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/polkadot-rocksdb-archive/20250616-064244
polkadot-rocksdb-prune 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T06:47:27Z 26513945 711.33 GB 256 https://snapshots.polkadot.io/polkadot-rocksdb-prune/20250619-064756
westend-asset-hub-rocksdb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T00:04:53Z 11992316 177.06 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/westend-asset-hub-rocksdb-archive/20250619-000524
westend-bridge-hub-rocksdb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T01:03:09Z 8337585 131.08 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/westend-bridge-hub-rocksdb-archive/20250619-010337
westend-collectives-rocksdb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-18T23:05:39Z 8877898 124.25 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/westend-collectives-rocksdb-archive/20250618-230609
westend-paritydb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T03:24:52Z 26538461 808.74 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/westend-paritydb-archive/20250619-032628
westend-paritydb-prune 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T00:19:58Z 26536758 96.57 GB 1000 https://snapshots.polkadot.io/westend-paritydb-prune/20250619-002043
westend-people-paritydb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T02:15:58Z 5865826 106.51 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/westend-people-paritydb-archive/20250619-021641
westend-rocksdb-archive 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-19T01:12:46Z 26537251 614.72 GB archive https://snapshots.polkadot.io/westend-rocksdb-archive/20250619-011406
westend-rocksdb-prune 1.18.1-0bc730c5f59 2025-06-18T23:14:11Z 26536151 88.53 GB 1000 https://snapshots.polkadot.io/westend-rocksdb-prune/20250618-231541

Last updated: 2025-06-19T17:39:12Z

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