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Pause and Resume

If you've deployed an Avalanche L1 locally, you can preserve and restore the state of your deployed Avalanche L1s.

Stopping the Local Network​

To gracefully stop a running local network while preserving state, run:

avalanche network stop
 
# output
Network stopped successfully.

When restarted, all of your deployed Avalanche L1s resume where they left off.

Resuming the Local Network​

To resume a stopped network, run:

avalanche network start
 
# output
Starting previously deployed and stopped snapshot
Booting Network. Wait until healthy...
...............
Network ready to use. Local network node endpoints:
+-------+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NODE  |    VM    |                                        URL                                         |
+-------+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| node5 | myblockchain | http://127.0.0.1:9658/ext/bc/SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz/rpc |
+-------+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| node1 | myblockchain | http://127.0.0.1:9650/ext/bc/SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz/rpc |
+-------+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| node2 | myblockchain | http://127.0.0.1:9652/ext/bc/SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz/rpc |
+-------+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| node3 | myblockchain | http://127.0.0.1:9654/ext/bc/SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz/rpc |
+-------+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| node4 | myblockchain | http://127.0.0.1:9656/ext/bc/SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz/rpc |
+-------+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The network resumes with the same state it paused with.

Checking Network Status​

If you'd like to determine whether or not a local Avalanche network is running on your machine, run:

avalanche network status

Example Call​

If the local network is running, the command prints something like

Requesting network status...
Network is Up. Network information:
==================================================================================================
Healthy: true
Custom VMs healthy: true
Number of nodes: 5
Number of custom VMs: 1
======================================== Node information ========================================
node5 has ID NodeID-P7oB2McjBGgW2NXXWVYjV8JEDFoW9xDE5 and endpoint http://127.0.0.1:9658:
node1 has ID NodeID-7Xhw2mDxuDS44j42TCB6U5579esbSt3Lg and endpoint http://127.0.0.1:9650:
node2 has ID NodeID-MFrZFVCXPv5iCn6M9K6XduxGTYp891xXZ and endpoint http://127.0.0.1:9652:
node3 has ID NodeID-NFBbbJ4qCmNaCzeW7sxErhvWqvEQMnYcN and endpoint http://127.0.0.1:9654:
node4 has ID NodeID-GWPcbFJZFfZreETSoWjPimr846mXEKCtu and endpoint http://127.0.0.1:9656:
==================================== Custom VM information =======================================
Endpoint at node4 for blockchain "SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz": http://127.0.0.1:9656/ext/bc/SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz/rpc
Endpoint at node5 for blockchain "SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz": http://127.0.0.1:9658/ext/bc/SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz/rpc
Endpoint at node1 for blockchain "SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz": http://127.0.0.1:9650/ext/bc/SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz/rpc
Endpoint at node2 for blockchain "SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz": http://127.0.0.1:9652/ext/bc/SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz/rpc
Endpoint at node3 for blockchain "SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz": http://127.0.0.1:9654/ext/bc/SPqou41AALqxDquEycNYuTJmRvZYbfoV9DYApDJVXKXuwVFPz/rpc

If the network isn't running, the command instead prints:

Requesting network status...
No local network running

or

Requesting network status...
Error: timed out trying to contact backend controller, it is most probably not running

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