<p>Has been solved, you have to include -datadir in the startup command, somehow the datadir in bitcoin.conf does not work properly.</p>

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2024-09-11T23:13:06.023Z
zbder
<p>I setup a pruned bitcoin node with the following configuration</p>
<pre><code>prune=550
dbcache=6192
par=4
maxconnections=20
server=1
rpcuser=testuser
rpcpassword=testpassword
datadir=/root/.bitcoin/blocks
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
walletnotify=/usr/bin/php8.1 -f /var/www/html/btcnotifyme.php %s
</code></pre>
<p>But i cannot get it to be consistent on node starts - every time i start the node itll start a initialdownload again and i have to wait 3-4 days for it to synchronize again and again - does anybody have an idea what could be the reason for this ?</p>
<p>I just start the node bitcoind -daemon and stop it with bitcoin-cli stop. Running the bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo also shows
&quot;initialblockdownload&quot;: true and the blocks folder gets reset. I am using the 0.27.0 package.</p>

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Bitcoin Node starts initialblockchain download on every start
zbder
# Bitcoin Node starts initialblockchain download on every start

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-08-26)

I setup a pruned bitcoin node with the following configuration

```
prune=550
dbcache=6192
par=4
maxconnections=20
server=1
rpcuser=testuser
rpcpassword=testpassword
datadir=/root/.bitcoin/blocks
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
walletnotify=/usr/bin/php8.1 -f /var/www/html/btcnotifyme.php %s

```

But i cannot get it to be consistent on node starts - every time i start the node itll start a initialdownload again and i have to wait 3-4 days for it to synchronize again and again - does anybody have an idea what could be the reason for this ?

I just start the node bitcoind -daemon and stop it with bitcoin-cli stop. Running the bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo also shows
"initialblockdownload": true and the blocks folder gets reset. I am using the 0.27.0 package.

**Tags:** bitcoin-core


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2024-09-11. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

Has been solved, you have to include -datadir in the startup command, somehow the datadir in bitcoin.conf does not work properly.


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