[tor-dev] keep .onion address

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 10:54:42AM +0200, Salva . wrote:
> Hello, I have an .onion website, I need to format my HDD and I don't wanna to lose my .onion address.
> How can I keep this address after formatting my HDD ?
> Thanks u all guys 		 	   		  

In the future, this is a better question for tor-talk than for tor-dev.

The short answer is to keep the directory that the HiddenServiceDir line
in your torrc file points to. For convenience, I guess that means you
might want to keep your torrc file too.

--Roger