How to make your running node synchronize the blockchain from scratch

You can follow two different approaches to make your node start a blockchain synchronization from scratch:

Specifying a database reset in configuration file

To reset your node by configuration you need to:

1. Stop your node

   sudo service rskj stop

2. In your configuration file, change 'reset' parameter to true:

   reset = true

3. Start your node again

   sudo service rskj start

Note: If you don't want database to be reset again after a new restart, set parameter to false again.

Removing database files manually

To reset your node's database manually you need to:

1. Stop your node

   sudo service rskj stop

2. Go to your database path as specified in your configuration file (e.g.: /var/lib/rsk/database) and remove files

   sudo rm -rf /var/lib/rsk/database/

3. Start your node again

   sudo service rskj start