diff --git a/Setting-up-a-Hub.md b/Setting-up-a-Hub.md
index 35da64b..ad17e68 100644
--- a/Setting-up-a-Hub.md
+++ b/Setting-up-a-Hub.md
@@ -41,10 +41,11 @@ sudo systemctl enable containerd.service
 ### create lbcd and rocksdb volumes
 
 ```bash
-mkdir -p /home/lbry/docker-volumes/lbcd /home/lbry/docker-volumes/rocksdb
+mkdir -p /home/lbry/docker-volumes/lbcd /home/lbry/docker-volumes/rocksdb /home/lbry/docker-volumes/es01
 # sudo chown -R 999:999 /home/lbry/docker-volumes  ## not needed unless you encounter problems 
 docker volume create --driver local --opt type=none --opt device=/home/lbry/docker-volumes/lbcd --opt o=bind lbry_lbcd
 docker volume create --driver local --opt type=none --opt device=/home/lbry/docker-volumes/rocksdb --opt o=bind lbry_rocksdb
+docker volume create --driver local --opt type=none --opt device=/home/lbry/docker-volumes/es01 --opt o=bind es01
 ```
 
 
@@ -98,7 +99,20 @@ wait for it to sync
 
 ## Elastic and Elastic Sync
 
-### first start elastic and wait for it to load the snapshot
+### download snapshot
+
+```bash
+mkdir /home/lbry/elastic-snapshot
+cd /home/lbry/elastic-snapshot
+wget -c https://snapshots.lbry.com/hub/es_snap.tar -O - | tar x
+sudo mv es_snap/lbry_es01/_data/nodes /home/lbry/docker-volumes/es01/
+sudo chown -R lbry:root /home/lbry/docker-volumes/es01
+sudo chmod -R 775 /home/lbry/docker-volumes/es01
+sudo cp es_snap/es_info /home/lbry/docker-volumes/rocksdb/
+sudo chown -R 999:999 /home/lbry/docker-volumes/rocksdb/es_info
+```
+
+### start elastic first and wait for it to load the snapshot
 
 ```bash
 docker compose up -d es01