Hi,

On 14/11/17 05:03, Roman Mamedov wrote:

Dear Tor project: this is very bad style to keep that in /var/lib, content

with properties like this must go into /var/cache/ [1], where it would be

automatically excluded from backups by default policies in most backup systems.

It does seem that all paths used by tor are relative to DataDirectory,
which has usually been /var/lib/tor. Perhaps a new configuration option
for CacheDirectory, and moving caches to that directory, would be
useful. It would be up to packagers to actually use that option though,
a default of using DataDirectory as CacheDirectory would not be entirely
unreasonable for cases where tor is embedded in other software.

This would seem worthy of a trac ticket if someone could write one up.