Snapshot Restore

Use snapshots to reduce recovery time, not as a substitute for verified backups. Stop the node or follow the storage engine's consistent snapshot procedure before copying data.

systemctl stop sui-fullnode
rsync -a --numeric-ids persistent data directory/sui/fullnode/ /backup/sui/fullnode/
systemctl start sui-fullnode

After restore, verify checkpoint progression with chains/sui/samples/grpcurl/checkpoint.sh before serving traffic.