When I installed my relay last year, I foolishly enabled disk encryption. This has caused a few automatic reboots or power failures to turn into a weekend of downtime. Today (or sometime this week) I'd like to rectify this by reinstalling the OS. I'm going to backup /var/lib/tor and my torrc, but I wanted to alert the masses in case I mess up and have to start over. The relay will be down during the process, but it shouldn't take more than an hour or so.
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/924B24AFA7F075D059E8EEB284CC4...
That took even less time than I expected. The relay is back online and should be in the consensus after a while.
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 8:22 AM Matthew Glennon matthew@glennon.online wrote:
When I installed my relay last year, I foolishly enabled disk encryption. This has caused a few automatic reboots or power failures to turn into a weekend of downtime. Today (or sometime this week) I'd like to rectify this by reinstalling the OS. I'm going to backup /var/lib/tor and my torrc, but I wanted to alert the masses in case I mess up and have to start over. The relay will be down during the process, but it shouldn't take more than an hour or so.
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/924B24AFA7F075D059E8EEB284CC4...
Matthew Glennon matthew@glennon.online PGP Signing Available Upon Request https://keybase.io/crazysane
I'm going to backup /var/lib/tor and my torrc
I was thinking in moving the tor relay, by this e-mail I can safely assume that backuping /var/lib/tor and torrc and moving those to the new location is enough to keep the same fingerprint/keys, so not to start as a new fresh relay. Am i correct?
That is correct, at least in my experience today.
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 2:35 PM Nicolás Dato nicolas.dato@gmail.com wrote:
I'm going to backup /var/lib/tor and my torrc
I was thinking in moving the tor relay, by this e-mail I can safely assume that backuping /var/lib/tor and torrc and moving those to the new location is enough to keep the same fingerprint/keys, so not to start as a new fresh relay. Am i correct? _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
There are two important files "secret_id_key" (RSA identity), "ed25519_master_id_secret_key" or ed25519_master_id_secret_key_encrypted(Ed25519 identity). These files are located in the /var/lib/tor/keys directory. Back up these files and if your hosting goes out you can use them to continue hosting your relay
On 2018 m. birželio 4 d. 21:34:02 GMT+03:00, "Nicolás Dato" nicolas.dato@gmail.com wrote:
I'm going to backup /var/lib/tor and my torrc
I was thinking in moving the tor relay, by this e-mail I can safely assume that backuping /var/lib/tor and torrc and moving those to the new location is enough to keep the same fingerprint/keys, so not to start as a new fresh relay. Am i correct? _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 03:34:02PM -0300, Nicolás Dato wrote:
I'm going to backup /var/lib/tor and my torrc
I was thinking in moving the tor relay, by this e-mail I can safely assume that backuping /var/lib/tor and torrc and moving those to the new location is enough to keep the same fingerprint/keys, so not to start as a new fresh relay. Am i correct?
Right. There's even a faq entry for the topic: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#UpgradeOrMove
Thanks for running relay(s)! :)
--Roger
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