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Check Your Status

A typical node log that is not up to date will look like this: 
2021-09-15 13:33:27 [Relaychain] āš™ļø  Syncing 10.4 bps, target=#9236775 (20 peers), best: #9227955 (0xa897ā€¦4f36), finalized #9227895 (0x1d6dā€¦1527), ā¬‡ 1.7MiB/s ā¬† 657.8kiB/s
2021-09-15 13:33:27 [Parachain] āš™ļø  Syncing 40.4 bps, target=#400531 (1 peers), best: #396657 (0xb898ā€¦6c02), finalized #396443 (0xf470ā€¦2f54), ā¬‡ 378.7kiB/s ā¬† 1.6kiB/s
You can check your node logs anytime by executing the following: 
sudo docker logs -f phala-node
For a status on your block heights, feel free to run: 
sudo phala status

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Download a Snapshot

ā„¹ If your node is close to the newest block height (about several hours to catch up) or already caught up, you donā€™t need to do anything; sit and wait.
Download the snapshot using the torrent (updated at 4/30/2022): here The download will take a while, as the file is large. Get some ā˜• in the meantime.
ā„¹ The snapshot archive is ~750 GB; if you donā€™t have enough space, consider extracting to an external storage.
To extract the file execute: 
tar -xvzf khala-node-snapshot-2022-04-30.tar.gz
The extraction will take a while to complete as well. After extraction, you should get a folder named khala-node. You can list your files with ls to verify where you extracted the snapshot.