# ipld-eth-state-snapshot > Tool for extracting the entire Ethereum state at a particular block height from leveldb into Postgres-backed IPFS [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/vulcanize/ipld-eth-state-snapshot)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/vulcanize/ipld-eth-state-snapshot) ## Usage ./ipld-eth-state-snapshot stateSnapshot --config={path to toml config file} ### Config Config format: ```toml [snapshot] mode = "file" # indicates output mode ("postgres" or "file") workers = 4 # degree of concurrency, the state trie is subdivided into sectiosn that are traversed and processed concurrently blockHeight = -1 # blockheight to perform the snapshot at (-1 indicates to use the latest blockheight found in leveldb) recoveryFile = "recovery_file" # specifies a file to output recovery information on error or premature closure [leveldb] path = "/Users/user/Library/Ethereum/geth/chaindata" # path to geth leveldb ancient = "/Users/user/Library/Ethereum/geth/chaindata/ancient" # path to geth ancient database [database] name = "vulcanize_public" # postgres database name hostname = "localhost" # postgres host port = 5432 # postgres port user = "postgres" # postgres user password = "" # postgres password [file] outputDir = "output_dir/" # when operating in 'file' output mode, this is the directory the files are written to ```