11 days ago
Hi Railway Support,
Yesterday during the night, my Chatwoot service (deployed using a Railway template) suddenly stopped working. This morning at around 7:50 AM UTC-3, one of my clients reported the issue. When I checked, the service was indeed down, although it wasn’t crashing — it simply wasn’t responding.
What caught my attention was that the associated volume appeared completely empty, even though the day before I had verified it was using around 25 GB of data. The last deployment or configuration changes to that service were made over a week ago, so nothing new had been modified recently.
I tried multiple actions — redeploying, restarting, etc. — but the service wouldn’t come back up properly. Finally, I duplicated the Chatwoot service within the same project, and the duplicated one started working normally.
The main issue is that the original volume data was completely wiped, meaning all media files (photos, videos, attachments) sent during this time have been permanently lost.
The only backup we currently have is the last manual backup we created ourselves, not the automatic backups that should have been saved by Railway.
I’d like to understand:
Why did this happen?
Is there any way to recover the lost volume data?
Could this happen again — could a volume become corrupted or reset randomly?
Is there a way to export or securely back up Railway’s automatic backups, so I can store them safely myself and prevent this from happening again?
This service is very valuable to me, and I don’t want my clients to have a poor experience due to this issue. I would really appreciate any help or clarification you can provide.
Thank you in advance for your support,
20 Replies
11 days ago
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11 days ago
Currently experiencing a similar issue but with a Postgres service: https://station.railway.com/questions/unable-to-connect-to-postgres-database-1dcf1a1a
11 days ago
I have the same issue this morning on my volume, it's down for no reason. And I was underneath 5GB, and around 9:30 am eastern time this morning my volume is down, and I can't reach any information about it as well.
11 days ago
I am at least able to ssh into the Postgres server machine and connect to the database, and the data appears to be intact, so there is hope agustintiseira.
11 days ago
Is your volume down as well?
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11 days ago
Ok so you do have the exact same issue, did it happen around 1-2 hours ago?
11 days ago
It looks like it started last night, and it may have been intermittent at first. Need to investigate more though.
11 days ago
Hello all.
We are investigating this issue currently! Thank you for bringing it up.
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 11 days ago
11 days ago
Hello!
We've escalated your issue to our engineering team.
We aim to provide an update within 1 business day.
Please reply to this thread if you have any questions!
andrewgold
It looks like it started last night, and it may have been intermittent at first. Need to investigate more though.
11 days ago
Ok Yeah, it seems like I can't see the volume 10h ago on my side. Stats on the volume from 10h ago.
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • 11 days ago
noahd
Hello all. We are investigating this issue currently! Thank you for bringing it up.
11 days ago
Thank you, Noah. Do you have any suggested workarounds? This has completely taken our business down.
andrewgold
Thank you, Noah. Do you have any suggested workarounds? This has completely taken our business down.
11 days ago
Same for me 12 employees can't work.
11 days ago
I don't have any workarounds as of right now. We are investigating this issue right now and are working towards resolution.
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 11 days ago
11 days ago
Hello,
We have called an incident for this issue and it is actively being worked on by our engineers.
You can follow along here: https://status.railway.com/cmhdlky9r003e44y4p4lyortz
11 days ago
Looks like we're back up, thank you!
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • 11 days ago
11 days ago
Hello,
Everything should be back and working. Are you able to verify that your services and data are intact? In my checks it looks like your volume is displaying 28 gigs of data!
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 11 days ago
11 days ago
I confirm that the service is now working again and that the volume has been restored with the data it contained up until the time of the outage. I would like to know what caused the issue and whether there is any possibility of it happening again.
Additionally, I would like to ask if it’s possible to merge the restored volume with the one I was using during the downtime, since if I start using the old volume again, I would lose the media files created over the past few hours while the issue was being resolved.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • 11 days ago
11 days ago
Unfortunately I do not know of any easy method of merging the volumes other than manual data transfer.
I am glad to hear that the issue is resolved!
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 11 days ago

