Re: why bitcoind started download bloks from the very begining?

So I hired VPS, installed fresh node and copied whole blocks directory

I didn't do reindex, unfortunately, just make a copy and started bitcoind

Did you just copy the "blocks" folder? or the entire Bitcoin Core "datadir"? Huh

If you didn't take the "chainstate" folder as well, then you'd need to do the reindex, otherwise you'd likely get the full download and sync.

actually I copied everything

reindex process finished but it didn't help
the whole process started from the beginning...