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# Warehouse nodes

To generate the Old Faithful archives on an ongoing basis, we recommend that you run a Warehouse node. A warehouse node is just a Solana node set up with some start-up/stop scripts that generate archives per epoch. Warehouse nodes have been used to create the ledger copies that Old Faithful bases itself on. They have also been used to keep the older BigTable archives current.

There are some examples and details about running a warehouse node here:

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With Old Faithful you use the rocksdb ledger copies generated by the warehouse nodes to generate the archives in content addressable format (CAR). &#x20;