9 days ago
Hello Railway Support,
I need urgent help recovering an automatic backup file from a removed deployment.
Project ID:
eb7eefa5-2e49-4b77-a954-c8c0360a78b1
Service ID:
336f8d12-c5f5-4600-a8a5-9c5f9803fabe
Removed deployment ID:
2363c91b-edf9-4ce6-9da2-9ca6e9a675d1
Repository:
MostafaReda12/party-star-agency
The application uses SQLite and has an automatic backup system.
The old deployment logs explicitly show that the following backup files were successfully created:
auto_2026-08-06_0100.json
auto_2026-08-07_0100.json
auto_2026-08-08_0100.json
auto_2026-08-09_0100.json
auto_2026-08-10_0100.json
auto_2026-08-11_0100.json
auto_2026-08-12_0100.json
The specific file I urgently need to recover is:
/app/backups/auto_2026-08-12_0100.json
The current deployment no longer contains this backup. The /app/backups directory is empty.
The application source code confirms that automatic backups are written to /app/backups using fs.writeFileSync.
This backup contains important production data that is no longer available in the current SQLite database.
Could you please check whether the filesystem, container snapshot, deployment snapshot, or any other internal recovery mechanism for the removed deployment is still available?
If possible, please recover or provide access to:
/app/backups/auto_2026-08-12_0100.json
Please do not delete or overwrite any potentially recoverable data.
Thank you.
1 Replies
9 days ago
Your service does not have a persistent volume attached, so the /app/backups/ directory was part of the container's ephemeral filesystem, which is discarded whenever a deployment is removed or replaced. Those backup files cannot be recovered. Going forward, attaching a volume to the service will ensure files written to the mount path persist across redeploys.
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 9 days ago
2 days ago
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Status changed to Solved Railway • 2 days ago