Need to get data from expired service
maaz-x14
FREEOP

24 days ago

Hi Railway team, my paid Postgres deployment was removed after downgrading to the free plan. I didn’t have backups, but I need to recover the data from my previous volume. Could you please check if a snapshot or dump is still available?

I don't want to upgrade to premium version. I just need the data, please help

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Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 24 days ago


Status changed to Open Railway 23 days ago


Click on your Postgres service and deploy it. You can then run a dump via SSH.


23 days ago

If the volume is still retained, the practical path is to reactivate/redeploy Postgres just long enough to dump it. You don’t need to keep the database running after export.

Once it starts, dump it immediately:

pg_dump "$DATABASE_URL" --no-owner --no-acl -Fc -f backup.dump

If you are running this from your laptop, use the public URL instead:

pg_dump "$DATABASE_PUBLIC_URL" --no-owner --no-acl -Fc -f backup.dump

If the service was actually deleted, community users cannot recover the old volume; only Railway support can check whether it is still retained. Also don’t create a new DB and assume it has the old data, verify tables/row counts first.


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