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Not possible atm. My disk is not that big, yet. However decompressing shouldnt take that long. I have synced a fresh hive install in 4 hours including download, decompress, and restore.

I experienced the same as wehmoen, download took 10 minutes and decompress has been running for a good 7 hours now, pv says eta 7 hours. So uncompressing might actually take 14 hours.

I wonder if dumping the logs in the console isn't slowing the whole operation.

Might also be that I'm running on hdd and not ssds