diff --git a/pytest/tests/mocknet/helpers/neard_runner.py b/pytest/tests/mocknet/helpers/neard_runner.py
index c6ece996863..86604f5d4bd 100644
--- a/pytest/tests/mocknet/helpers/neard_runner.py
+++ b/pytest/tests/mocknet/helpers/neard_runner.py
@@ -386,8 +386,6 @@ def neard_init(self, rpc_port, protocol_port, validator_id):
         config['consensus']['min_block_production_delay']['nanos'] = 300000000
         config['consensus']['max_block_production_delay']['secs'] = 3
         config['consensus']['max_block_production_delay']['nanos'] = 0
-        if self.is_traffic_generator():
-            config['archive'] = True
         with open(self.tmp_near_home_path('config.json'), 'w') as f:
             json.dump(config, f, indent=2)
 
diff --git a/tools/mirror/src/lib.rs b/tools/mirror/src/lib.rs
index 9cf4fefd749..027c60a8ec6 100644
--- a/tools/mirror/src/lib.rs
+++ b/tools/mirror/src/lib.rs
@@ -837,13 +837,6 @@ impl<T: ChainAccess> TxMirror<T> {
         let target_config =
             nearcore::config::load_config(target_home, GenesisValidationMode::UnsafeFast)
                 .with_context(|| format!("Error loading target config from {:?}", target_home))?;
-        if !target_config.client_config.archive {
-            // this is probably not going to come up, but we want to avoid a situation where
-            // we go offline for a long time and then come back online, and we state sync to
-            // the head of the target chain without looking for our outcomes that made it on
-            // chain right before we went offline
-            anyhow::bail!("config file in {} has archive: false, but archive must be set to true for the target chain", target_home.display());
-        }
         let db = match mirror_db_path {
             Some(mirror_db_path) => open_db(mirror_db_path),
             None => {