Hey RJH, Yep. This has happened to me with my Raspberry Pi too (nickname: mutualaid). Be sure you make a copy somewhere safe of kitchenaid's keys found in /var/lib/tor/keys to pick up where you left off next time. Given the network's extra capacity, I doubt core developers and the community will focus on finding a way to fasttrack a relay's reputation, let alone backing up the private keys in a secure way. It's up to relay operators to create copies of their keys. Alternatively, you can also just do period backups of the entire SD card for the Raspberry Pi relay. Either way, thanks for running one. In solidarity, Wilton tor-relays-request@lists.torproject.org:

Message: 2 Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 13:50:03 +0100 From: RJ Hofmann<cepa@weltzustand.de> To:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-relays] new installation of an established TOR relay Message-ID:<04381F44-8483-4ACE-8928-6E008FB885B5@weltzustand.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Hello there,

caused by a temporary failure of the raspberry I had to completely renew installation of my TOR relay nicknamed mosaik.

The new installtion is already up and running, but since I had no copies of keys and fingerprints the new relay is completely new in terms of consensus weight etc..

I wonder if it is helpful in any way to inform you about this change as to accelerate the relay?s ?reputation? to make it fully functional for the community on the fast track.

Anyway the relay will work its way up to its former capabilities.

The old relay named ?mosaik? (see screenshot) is no longer existing, the new one is now called ?kitchenaid? (see screenshot) and active at its former speed.

with best wishes RJH