18 days ago
I had a complete project already running on n8n, and when I exposed the license I renewed it, but when I tried to access it, my old project was no longer there, and I didn't have a save file for it. What should I do?
3 Replies
18 days ago
Your n8n service does not have a persistent volume attached, so it was running on ephemeral storage. Any data stored locally, including workflows, is lost when the service redeploys and cannot be recovered. Your Postgres service does have a volume, so if n8n was configured to use Postgres as its database backend, your workflow data may still be there. Going forward, attach a volume to your n8n service to persist its local data across redeploys.
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 18 days ago
Railway
Your n8n service does not have a persistent volume attached, so it was running on ephemeral storage. Any data stored locally, including workflows, is lost when the service redeploys and cannot be recovered. Your Postgres service does have a volume, so if n8n was configured to use Postgres as its database backend, your workflow data may still be there. Going forward, attach a [volume](https://docs.railway.com/guides/volumes) to your n8n service to persist its local data across redeploys.
18 days ago
We've already checked the workflow_entity table, and it's empty. So the old n8n probably wasn't using that Postgres to save the workflows.
Is there anything I can do to recover my project?
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • 18 days ago
18 days ago
We confirmed that your n8n service has no persistent volume attached, so it was running on ephemeral storage, and since the Postgres workflow_entity table is also empty, the workflow data is not recoverable. To prevent this going forward, attach a volume to your n8n service so its data persists across redeploys.
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 18 days ago
Status changed to Solved Railway • 18 days ago