chantools/doc/chantools_compactdb.md

chantools compactdb

Create a copy of a channel.db file in safe/read-only mode

Synopsis

This command opens a database in read-only mode and tries to create a copy of it to a destination file, compacting it in the process.

chantools compactdb [flags]

Examples

chantools compactdb \
	--sourcedb ~/.lnd/data/graph/mainnet/channel.db \
	--destdb ./results/compacted.db

Options

      --destdb string     new lnd channel.db file to copy the compacted database to
  -h, --help              help for compactdb
      --sourcedb string   lnd channel.db file to create the database backup from
      --txmaxsize int     maximum transaction size (default 65536)

Options inherited from parent commands

      --nologfile           If set, no log file will be created. This is useful for testing purposes where we don't want to create a log file.
  -r, --regtest             Indicates if regtest parameters should be used
      --resultsdir string   Directory where results should be stored (default "./results")
  -s, --signet              Indicates if the public signet parameters should be used
  -t, --testnet             Indicates if testnet parameters should be used
      --testnet4            Indicates if testnet4 parameters should be used

SEE ALSO

• chantools - Chantools helps recover funds from lightning channels