It happened to me recently as well I (a similar situation) I had to switch my relay over to a new OS, I had copied the fingerprint over but despite the fact that I had done this, my relay was still assigned a new identity (which is why I am running a bridge now).

From: torix@protonmail.com
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 6:57 PM
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Restore tor exit node

This happened to me as well this week.  I copied over the torrc and keys directory; I thought that was all I needed.  But I got a new fingerprint, so the relay is seen as new.

Running Tor 0.3.4.8 on freeBSD.

--Torix

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On Friday, October 26, 2018 6:49 PM, <node47@torsrv.de> wrote:

> Dear all,

>

> I have the following problem:

> My VPS-Hoster has deleted my server. Now I reinstalled tor on fresh

> Debian 9 minimal in version 0.3.4.8 (as before).

> I also restored my keys from /var/lib/tor/keys and set the datadir in

> torrc to /var/lib/tor

>

> When I started the tor-service a new ed25519_signing_cert and

> ed25519_signing_secret_key were generated as well as a new fingerprint.

> The secret_* files still have the old timestamp but new fingerprint had

> been created. Now the server is listed 3 times in the relaysearch and my

> node is known as “new” node instead of getting the old fingerprint and

> the old flags/status.

>

> Who can assist me in how to do the restore of the fingerprint and how to

> correct the relaysearch?!

>

> Best regards from Germany

> Max

>

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