[tor] noisetor recovery

[Patrick O'Doherty]

Just to follow up,

The ddrescue that I ran on the disk overnight appears to have created a
good image, at least I believe I have recovered key material for all of
the 4 tor instances that we were running.

I'll look to get them back up and running with an upgraded tor either
tonight or tomorrow time depending.

p

Patrick O'Doherty:
> hey folks,
> 
> as some of you might have noticed the noisetor has been offline due to a
> hardware (HDD) failure.
> 
> myself and Andy have gotten the host back online, but unfortunately it
> looks as if we've lost the relay key material as the filesystem is
> highly corrupted.
> 
> my plan to get noisetor back up and running is as follows:
> 
> 1) image the disk and attempt to recover the key material
> 
> 2) failing that generate new offline master keys (so that HDD recovery
> doesn't cause this issue again) and create new 18-month signing keys
> such that the relay can live again with minimal upkeep. I'm hoping that
> an 18 month dead mans switch encourages somewhat more frequent
> maintenance of the node going forward.
> 
> posting here so there's some semblance of a public plan to get noisetor
> back on its feet.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> p
> 

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