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Syncing archive node from era files

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#35,354 opened on Jul 14, 2026

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In order to sync an archive node, users currently have to use geth import-history to get all the blocks in to the database/freezer. Then the node will process them.

It should just work to drop era files into the datadir and have the node process them from there (without import).

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