📘
Old Faithful
  • Introduction
    • Content Identifiers
    • Indexes
  • Usage & Installation
    • Looking up CIDs
    • Retrieving from Filecoin
    • gRPC Methods
    • RPC Methods
    • RPC server
      • Local file system
      • HTTP
      • Filecoin v1 retrievals
      • Filecoin v2 retrievals
    • Accessing OF1 from old-faithful.net
    • Geyser
    • Software integrations
  • Generating
    • Historical blocks
    • Warehouse nodes
    • Creating indexes
  • Hosting
    • Making a local copy
    • Filecoin
  • Validation
    • Reproducibility
    • Epoch 208
Powered by GitBook
On this page
  1. Hosting

Making a local copy

PreviousHostingNextFilecoin

Last updated 9 months ago

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 . 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 .

generate the archives and indexes yourself
docs about how to generate the indexes