[metrics-bugs] #21378 [Metrics/CollecTor]: Archive bwauth bandwidth files (was: Archive bwauth votes)

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#21378: Archive bwauth bandwidth files
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 Reporter:  tom                     |          Owner:  metrics-team
     Type:  enhancement             |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Low                     |      Milestone:
Component:  Metrics/CollecTor       |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                  |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-bwauth tor-dirauth  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by teor):

 Replying to [comment:2 juga]:
 > As commented in
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21377#comment:4
 >
 > > This is now fixed in sbws, though is still not being use by any
 !DirAuth.
 > > It is not planned to add this toTorflow.
 >
 > We can correlate the votes with the `Torflow` bandwidth measurement
 files by the timestamp, right?, so i wonder if it would still be possible
 to archive the files produced by all the bwauths that are running
 `Torflow`.
 >
 > Another more exotic idea (probably needs other ticket if it makes sense)
 is to collect the data from the testnet, since we have DirAuths running
 sbws there. Would this require lot of extra work?

 This ticket is about archiving the entire v3bw file from each directory
 authority.
 It's not enough to archive the files from the testnet.

 We could implement this ticket by making the bandwidth file part of the
 directory protocol. We have a spec for the bandwidth file format, so all
 we need to do is specify the URL for the file in torspec, and implement it
 in the code.

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