diff --git a/integration-tests/bats/archive-test-repos/README.txt b/integration-tests/bats/archive-test-repos/README.txt
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+
+This directory contains dolt database files which are used as part of the
+archive.bats tests.
+
+Each directory is a .dolt directory which can be copied into place
+for a given test.
+
+Eg:
+
+$ mkdir -p repo/.dolt
+$ cp -R $BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/archive-test-repos/base/* repo/.dolt
+$ cd repo
+$ dolt sql
+
+The Directories are as follows:
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+base: This was the first repo created. It's contents are all archive files.
+
+$ dolt admin storage
+Storage Artifact:
+  ID: 8p5e2m6skovfdjlh4jg3llr8sfvu384l
+  Path: /Users/neil/Documents/data_dir_1/db1/base/.dolt/noms/8p5e2m6skovfdjlh4jg3llr8sfvu384l
+  Table File Metadata:
+    Snappy Chunk Count: 2 (bytes: 382)
+
+Storage Artifact:
+  ID: 29o8a3uevcpr15tilcemb3s438edmoog
+  Path: /Users/neil/Documents/data_dir_1/db1/base/.dolt/noms/oldgen/29o8a3uevcpr15tilcemb3s438edmoog.darc
+  Archive Metadata:
+    Format Version: 1
+    Snappy Chunk Count: 0 (bytes: 0)
+    ZStd Chunk Count: 125 (bytes: 51318)
+    Dictionary Count: 1 (bytes: 2620)
+
+Storage Artifact:
+  ID: dnu4lr5j8sstbj5usbld7alsnuj5nf23
+  Path: /Users/neil/Documents/data_dir_1/db1/base/.dolt/noms/oldgen/dnu4lr5j8sstbj5usbld7alsnuj5nf23.darc
+  Archive Metadata:
+    Format Version: 1
+    Snappy Chunk Count: 0 (bytes: 0)
+    ZStd Chunk Count: 139 (bytes: 105419)
+    Dictionary Count: 1 (bytes: 2641)
+
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+large_clone: a full clone of base, with a bunch of mutations on it. It was
+        then garbage collected to ensure all objects were in Snappy format
+
+        This repo has more than 1000 new chunks in it, which is important
+        because when we push with archive as the default, all snappy
+        objects will be converted into zstd compressed objects.
+
+# clones from base.
+$ dolt clone http://localhost:$port/test-org/test-repo clone1
+$ cd clone1
+$ dolt sql -q "$(mutations_and_gc_statement)" # see archive.bats 
+... repeated ...
+$ dolt sql -q "$(mutations_and_gc_statement)"
+$ dolt gc --full
+
+$ dolt admin storage
+Storage Artifact:
+  ID: p6d0rsovtipdk6r2b1kh9qrndif41703
+  Path: /Users/neil/Documents/data_dir_1/db1/clone1/.dolt/noms/p6d0rsovtipdk6r2b1kh9qrndif41703
+  Table File Metadata:
+    Snappy Chunk Count: 2 (bytes: 386)
+
+Storage Artifact:
+  ID: b5j6kmj2m68sukiu22ouoke7u9281a06
+  Path: /Users/neil/Documents/data_dir_1/db1/clone1/.dolt/noms/oldgen/b5j6kmj2m68sukiu22ouoke7u9281a06
+  Table File Metadata:
+    Snappy Chunk Count: 1873 (bytes: 4119222)
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+small_clone: a full clone of base with a very small number of mutations on it.
+
+        Similar to clone1, it was garbage collected to convert chunks into
+        the snappy format. There are only a few new chunks though, so
+        pushing with archives enabled will result in archive files which
+        have snappy objects in them.
+
+$ dolt admin storage
+Storage Artifact:
+  ID: sv0o2e33pel8caor7979s4rk227raink
+  Path: /Users/neil/Documents/data_dir_1/db1/clone2/.dolt/noms/sv0o2e33pel8caor7979s4rk227raink
+  Table File Metadata:
+    Snappy Chunk Count: 2 (bytes: 386)
+
+Storage Artifact:
+  ID: c5j9u4ced6eg6cnegk0mgdglc3t04air
+  Path: /Users/neil/Documents/data_dir_1/db1/clone2/.dolt/noms/oldgen/c5j9u4ced6eg6cnegk0mgdglc3t04air
+  Table File Metadata:
+    Snappy Chunk Count: 273 (bytes: 377979)
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+{
+  "head": "refs/heads/main",
+  "remotes": {
+    "origin": {
+      "name": "origin",
+      "url": "http://localhost:4635/test-org/test-repo",
+      "fetch_specs": [
+        "refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*"
+      ],
+      "params": {}
+    }
+  },
+  "backups": {},
+  "branches": {
+    "main": {
+      "head": "refs/heads/main",
+      "remote": "origin"
+    }
+  }
+}
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+{
+  "head": "refs/heads/main",
+  "remotes": {
+    "origin": {
+      "name": "origin",
+      "url": "http://localhost:3903/test-org/test-repo",
+      "fetch_specs": [
+        "refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*"
+      ],
+      "params": {}
+    }
+  },
+  "backups": {},
+  "branches": {
+    "main": {
+      "head": "refs/heads/main",
+      "remote": "origin"
+    }
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/integration-tests/bats/archive.bats b/integration-tests/bats/archive.bats
index 44e28c9c59..3ed6ff0cb6 100755
--- a/integration-tests/bats/archive.bats
+++ b/integration-tests/bats/archive.bats
@@ -151,8 +151,7 @@ mutations_and_gc_statement() {
     [[ "$remotesrv_pid" -gt 0 ]] || false
 
     cd ../cloned
-    run dolt clone http://localhost:$port/test-org/test-repo repo1
-    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    dolt clone http://localhost:$port/test-org/test-repo repo1
     cd repo1
 
     # Verify we can read data
@@ -310,4 +309,190 @@ mutations_and_gc_statement() {
 
   dolt fsck
 
+}
+
+@test "archive: large push remote without archive default produces no new archives" {
+    unset DOLT_ARCHIVE_PULL_STREAMER
+
+    mkdir -p remote/.dolt
+    cp -R $BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/archive-test-repos/base/* remote/.dolt
+    cd remote
+
+    port=$( definePORT )
+    remotesrv --http-port $port --grpc-port $port --repo-mode &
+    remotesrv_pid=$!
+    [[ "$remotesrv_pid" -gt 0 ]] || false
+    
+    cd ..
+    mkdir -p clone/.dolt
+    cp -R $BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/archive-test-repos/large_clone/* clone/.dolt
+    cd clone
+    dolt remote add r1 http://localhost:$port/test-org/test-repo
+    dolt push r1 HEAD:main
+
+    cd ../remote
+    run dolt admin storage
+    [ $status -eq 0 ]
+
+    ## This output indicates that the new content pushed to the remote all landed as snappy chunks
+    ## in a classic table file. multiline regex - no quotes - to match this text:
+    #   Table File Metadata:
+    #     Snappy Chunk Count: 1609
+    [[ $output =~ Table[[:space:]]File[[:space:]]Metadata:[[:space:]]*Snappy[[:space:]]Chunk[[:space:]]Count:[[:space:]]1609[[:space:]] ]] || false
+}
+
+@test "archive: small push remote without archive default produces no new archives" {
+    unset DOLT_ARCHIVE_PULL_STREAMER
+
+    mkdir -p remote/.dolt
+    cp -R $BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/archive-test-repos/base/* remote/.dolt
+    cd remote
+
+    port=$( definePORT )
+    remotesrv --http-port $port --grpc-port $port --repo-mode &
+    remotesrv_pid=$!
+    [[ "$remotesrv_pid" -gt 0 ]] || false
+
+    cd ..
+    mkdir -p clone/.dolt
+    cp -R $BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/archive-test-repos/small_clone/* clone/.dolt
+    cd clone
+    dolt remote add r1 http://localhost:$port/test-org/test-repo
+    dolt push r1 HEAD:main
+
+    cd ../remote
+    run dolt admin storage
+    [ $status -eq 0 ]
+
+    ## This output indicates that the new content pushed to the remote all landed as snappy chunks
+    ## in a classic table file. multiline regex - no quotes - to match this text:
+    #   Table File Metadata:
+    #     Snappy Chunk Count: 9
+    [[ $output =~ Table[[:space:]]File[[:space:]]Metadata:[[:space:]]*Snappy[[:space:]]Chunk[[:space:]]Count:[[:space:]]9[[:space:]] ]] || false
+}
+
+@test "archive: large push remote with archive default produces new archive with converted snappy chunks" {
+    export DOLT_ARCHIVE_PULL_STREAMER=1
+
+    mkdir -p remote/.dolt
+    cp -R $BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/archive-test-repos/base/* remote/.dolt
+    cd remote
+
+    port=$( definePORT )
+    remotesrv --http-port $port --grpc-port $port --repo-mode &
+    remotesrv_pid=$!
+    [[ "$remotesrv_pid" -gt 0 ]] || false
+
+    cd ..
+    mkdir -p clone/.dolt
+    cp -R $BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/archive-test-repos/large_clone/* clone/.dolt
+    cd clone
+    dolt remote add r1 http://localhost:$port/test-org/test-repo
+    dolt push r1 HEAD:main
+
+    cd ../remote
+    run dolt admin storage
+    [ $status -eq 0 ]
+
+    ## This output indicates that the new content pushed to the remote all landed as zStd chunks
+    ## in an archive file. multiline regex - no quotes - to match this text:
+    #   Archive Metadata:
+    #     Format Version: 2
+    #     Snappy Chunk Count: 0 (bytes: 0)
+    #     ZStd Chunk Count: 1609
+    [[ $output =~ Archive[[:space:]]Metadata:[[:space:]]*Format[[:space:]]Version:[[:space:]]2[[:space:]]*Snappy[[:space:]]Chunk[[:space:]]Count:[[:space:]]0.*ZStd[[:space:]]Chunk[[:space:]]Count:[[:space:]]1609 ]] || false
+}
+
+@test "archive: small push remote with archive default produces archive with snappy chunks" {
+    export DOLT_ARCHIVE_PULL_STREAMER=1
+
+    mkdir -p remote/.dolt
+    cp -R $BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/archive-test-repos/base/* remote/.dolt
+    cd remote
+
+    port=$( definePORT )
+    remotesrv --http-port $port --grpc-port $port --repo-mode &
+    remotesrv_pid=$!
+    [[ "$remotesrv_pid" -gt 0 ]] || false
+
+    cd ..
+    mkdir -p clone/.dolt
+    cp -R $BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/archive-test-repos/small_clone/* clone/.dolt
+    cd clone
+    dolt remote add r1 http://localhost:$port/test-org/test-repo
+    dolt push r1 HEAD:main
+
+    cd ../remote
+    run dolt admin storage
+    [ $status -eq 0 ]
+
+    ## This output indicates that the new content pushed to the remote all landed as snappy chunks
+    ## in an archive file. multiline regex - no quotes - to match this text:
+    #   Archive Metadata:
+    #     Format Version: 2
+    #     Snappy Chunk Count: 9
+    [[ $output =~ Archive[[:space:]]Metadata:[[:space:]]*Format[[:space:]]Version:[[:space:]]2[[:space:]]*Snappy[[:space:]]Chunk[[:space:]]Count:[[:space:]]9[[:space:]] ]] || false
+}
+
+@test "archive: fetch into empty database with archive default" {
+    mkdir -p remote/.dolt
+    cp -R $BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/archive-test-repos/base/* remote/.dolt
+    cd remote
+
+    port=$( definePORT )
+    remotesrv --http-port $port --grpc-port $port --repo-mode &
+    remotesrv_pid=$!
+    [[ "$remotesrv_pid" -gt 0 ]] || false
+
+    cd ../
+    dolt remote add r1 http://localhost:$port/test-org/test-repo
+    DOLT_ARCHIVE_PULL_STREAMER=1 dolt fetch r1
+
+    run dolt admin storage
+    [ $status -eq 0 ]
+
+    ## This output indicates that the new content was fetch from the remote into an archive file. Note that since
+    ## the remote is all archive, the chunks end up as zStd as well.
+    ## multiline regex - no quotes - to match this text:
+    #   Archive Metadata:
+    #     Format Version: 2
+    #     Snappy Chunk Count: 0 (bytes: 0)
+    #     ZStd Chunk Count: 260
+    [[ $output =~ Archive[[:space:]]Metadata:[[:space:]]*Format[[:space:]]Version:[[:space:]]2[[:space:]]*Snappy[[:space:]]Chunk[[:space:]]Count:[[:space:]]0.*ZStd[[:space:]]Chunk[[:space:]]Count:[[:space:]]260 ]] || false
+
+    dolt fsck
+}
+
+@test "archive: fetch into empty database with archive disabled" {
+    unset DOLT_ARCHIVE_PULL_STREAMER
+
+    mkdir -p remote/.dolt
+    cp -R $BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/archive-test-repos/base/* remote/.dolt
+    cd remote
+
+    port=$( definePORT )
+    remotesrv --http-port $port --grpc-port $port --repo-mode &
+    remotesrv_pid=$!
+    [[ "$remotesrv_pid" -gt 0 ]] || false
+
+    cd ../
+    dolt remote add r1 http://localhost:$port/test-org/test-repo
+    dolt fetch r1
+
+    run dolt admin storage
+    [ $status -eq 0 ]
+
+    echo "------------------"
+    echo "$output"
+    echo "------------------"
+
+
+    ## This output indicates that the new content was fetched from the remote into a table file. Note that since
+    ## the remote is all archive, the chunks are translated into the snappy format
+    ## multiline regex - no quotes - to match this text:
+    #   Table File Metadata:
+    #     Snappy Chunk Count: 260
+    [[ $output =~ Table[[:space:]]File[[:space:]]Metadata:[[:space:]]*Snappy[[:space:]]Chunk[[:space:]]Count:[[:space:]]260[[:space:]] ]] || false
+
+    dolt fsck
 }
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