A few days ago had some SSD space issues on my VPS. I accidentally deleted the block_log file prior to upgrading space.
When I tried to download gtg's block_log with wget, I wasn't able to run my witness anymore with that block_log being used. So I resynced the regular way, downloading all the blocks as it goes through.
For some reason this takes days and days, whereas the wget of the block_log takes under an hour to download 13gb and then replay those existing blocks only took a few hours. The time this is taking is ridiculous though.
I have been in the 12 million block range for the past 2-3 days. Eventually I will reach the current 13 million block range and be done, but who knows how long that will take.
Sorry for being down for so long :\ Thank you for your understanding :)
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