Syncing with Rclone

This document introduces another centralized fast state syncing method using rclone. Please use it with caution. This guide is mainly used for a newly started node to catch up with the blockchain faster. Otherwise, the blockchain syncing may take weeks from genesis block.
Rclone db snapshot is sync'ed with blockchain frequently. However, there maybe a potential race condition when the rclone may fail due to our nodes were updating the db files at the same time. In this case, just re-run the rclone command to re-sync again.
1. Installing Rclone
For installing Rclone, please follow the instructions at https://rclone.org.
TL;DR, on a Linux system, you may run the following command.
curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
2. Configuring Rclone
To check the location of the rclone.conffile run:
rclone config file
The rclone.conf file is usually located at ~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf . 
Now run the following command to create the rclone.conf file.
cat<<-EOF > ~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
[mainnet]
type = s3
provider = AWS
env_auth = false
region = us-west-1
acl = public-read
server_side_encryption = AES256
storage_class = REDUCED_REDUNDANCY
EOF
3. Running Rclone
Below is the command to sync the shard you want. Replace <ShardID>with the shard number you want to sync. Each of the rclone snapshot is around 1.7 Gb as of 05/14/2020. Shard 0 is around 1.8 Gb as of 5/14/2020. 
It may take up to 10 minutes for the full sync depending on your network condition.
You won't see anything on your Terminal screen after running Rclone but you'll know it's complete if you get the next line of prompt.
After the sync, you may use du -h harmony_db_* command to check the size of the downloaded snapshots.
rclone sync mainnet:pub.harmony.one/mainnet.min/harmony_db_<ShardID> harmony_db_<ShardID>
Nodes in shard 0 just need to sync harmony_db_0
Nodes in shard 1, 2, 3 need to sync both harmony_db_0, and harmony_db_<ShardID>
4. Cheat Sheet
shard0:
rclone sync mainnet:pub.harmony.one/mainnet.min/harmony_db_0 harmony_db_0
shard1:
rclone sync mainnet:pub.harmony.one/mainnet.min/harmony_db_0 harmony_db_0
rclone sync mainnet:pub.harmony.one/mainnet.min/harmony_db_1 harmony_db_1
shard2:
rclone sync mainnet:pub.harmony.one/mainnet.min/harmony_db_0 harmony_db_0
rclone sync mainnet:pub.harmony.one/mainnet.min/harmony_db_2 harmony_db_2
shard3:
rclone sync mainnet:pub.harmony.one/mainnet.min/harmony_db_0 harmony_db_0
rclone sync mainnet:pub.harmony.one/mainnet.min/harmony_db_3 harmony_db_3
After the sync, you may use du -h harmony_db_* command to check the size of the downloaded snapshots.
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