<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp4e176767yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div>Eddie,</div><div><br></div><div>You should be able to copy the donor tor directory (preserving user, group, permissions) to the transplant server (including keys) and be back online with the same fingerprint (new ip address).</div><div><br></div><div>I recommend using the same version of tor and ensure the transplanted tor directory's user and group are appropriate for the transplant server.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope that makes sense.</div><div><br></div><div>Respectfully,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Gary</div><div class="ydp4e176767signature">—<br>This Message Originated by the Sun.<br>iBigBlue 63W Solar Array (~12 Hour Charge)<br>+ 2 x Charmast 26800mAh Power Banks<br>= iPhone XS Max 512GB (~2 Weeks Charged)</div></div>
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On Tuesday, March 8, 2022, 1:00:01 PM MST, Eddie <stunnel@attglobal.net> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">One of my bridges has just taken on a slew of new connections. Over the <br></div><div dir="ltr">last few days it's gone from an average of around 15 users to over 300 <br></div><div dir="ltr">(according to tor metrics. The logs show over 1,000 unique clients for <br></div><div dir="ltr">the same period). Unfortunately with the VPS provider I'm using, this <br></div><div dir="ltr">isn't sustainable as I'll probably blow my bandwidth allowance in a <br></div><div dir="ltr">matter of days and the excess charges are crazy.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">So I'm looking to move both my bridges to a new VPS, which unfortunately <br></div><div dir="ltr">is probably going to p!ss off the 300 plus folks who have just found my <br></div><div dir="ltr">bridge only for it to promptly disappear, as I'm certain that there's no <br></div><div dir="ltr">way to "move" them to the new location and have a couple of questions.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I'm guessing that the only advantage in copying over the keys directory <br></div><div dir="ltr">is that the historical statistics will remain.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Is there any reason to copy over the pt_state directory, to retain the <br></div><div dir="ltr">same bridgeline information.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Cheers.<br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">tor-relays mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays</a><br></div></div>
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