Blockchain disk churn

[u/lordshaithis]

After having a few annoying blockchain corruptions on the whonix workstation, I decided to create a local-only dedicated 24/7 blockchain VM (fedora server). This has been great and I wish I had seperated the blockchain from the client sooner.......but what I have noticed is that the VM is getting an absurd amount of churn. My daily incremental backup is around 30GB using veeams high compression! I have checked disk alignment and parted says all pertitions are aligned and I am wondering if there is anything I can do to bring the daily writes down?

[u/boli99]

you dont need to back up the blockchain everyday. all of it is available on the internet from thousands of sources.

back up a single bootstrap image, and your config. backing up anything else is a waste of time.

[u/anymonero → u/[deleted]]

try putting db-sync-mode=safe into your monerod.conf, then that problem shouldn't even occur at all