I had to restart my server and now I am starting the daemon again. 15:53:13 2016-07-20 [INF] DCRD: Version 0.1.6-beta 15:53:13 2016-07-20 [INF] DCRD: Loading block database from 'C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Dcrd\data\mainnet\blocks_leveldb' 15:53:13 2016-07-20 [INF] BCDB: Address index synced and loaded to height 47248 15:53:13 2016-07-20 [INF] DCRD: Block database loaded with block height 47248 15:53:13 2016-07-20 [INF] DCRD: Block ticket database initialized empty 15:53:13 2016-07-20 [INF] DCRD: Db non-empty, resyncing ticket DB I am on this screen for more that 30 mins now. How long does it take to sync with the blockchain? Do I need to delete the previous Decred database from the server?
You must cleanly shut down dcrd for it to write the ticket DB. Failing to do so will result in it needing to resync it at startup. The only way to cleanly shut down dcrd is to give it an interrupt signal (ctrl-C) from a cmd.exe or powershell console window. If you close the console window or log out/shutdown the computer before interrupting dcrd, the dcrd process will be immediately terminated by the OS instead of running clean shutdown. I also hope that you are running that dcrd in an isolated virtual machine. It is not advisable to run dcrd as Administrator.