Making a local copy

To host the archives locally, you need to arrange to pull a cold copy from one of the Filecoin providers or a special cold copy provided through old-faithful.net.

The archives require about 250 TiB for the actual archive data and approximately 50 TiB for the indexes. We recommend storing the indexes in an NVME store.

You can also generate the archives and indexes yourself. Generating the actual historical archives is quite an undertaking, however generating the indexes if you have a cloned local copy of the CAR files is fairly easy. See these docs about how to generate the indexes.