Is there any way to set up your own import snapshot data directory?

[coder-chenda]

I'd like to ask how to set the path of import snapshot to import data, because I already have data path L, and the default import will be / home / Ubuntu / Lotus /. I'm very annoyed. Is there any way to set your own import snapshot data directory?

[rjan90]

Hey @coder-chenda! Can you explain what you mean about set your own import snapshot data directory?

You can set where your .lotus-folder is located by setting the LOTUS_PATH=/path/to/your/.lotus environmental variable to your desired location if that is what you are wondering about?

[coder-chenda]

Hello, I set it, but it's useless

[coder-chenda]

The storage path on my machine is /data/fil/data/

[rjan90]

You will have to export that variable before you start your deamon. So if your daemon is already running, you will have to restart it for it to update the location of the .lotus-folder

export LOTUS_PATH=/data/fil/data/.lotus

[coder-chenda]

Yes, I export variables first and then start lotus daemon

[coder-chenda]

But the data is still exported to /root/.lotus

[LexLuthr]

@coder-chenda Are you running it as a service from root user? If so, then you need to set these variables in the service file.

[LexLuthr]

I am archiving this discussion as there has been no new input from the author for more than 7 days.