At 06:20 1/31/2015 -0500, grarpamp wrote:

Yet during the time of an outage, you might try to leave the old tor running and. . .

Also I see I should make a copy of the cached-* files and the state file in case some anomaly is present the Tor routing data. I did look at Vidalia'a network map at the time of the incident and the list of relays on the left side looked ok. On the right side something like <path> <path> etc appeared where client connections normally are listed.