restored deleted project came back empty, need service + volume recovery
saedja126-creator
HOBBYOP

14 days ago

My project "diplomatic-expression" (production) was accidentally deleted today around 09:26 GMT (3 hours ago).

I received the deletion email and clicked the restore link, which brought the project back, but it is now completely empty, no services and no volume. It ran a self-hosted n8n whose data (workflows and credentials) was on its attached volume.

Please urgently, could you restore the n8n service and its volume data. My account email is [saedja126@gmail.com].

This is my production business system.

Thank you.

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Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 14 days ago


13 days ago

There was never a volume in that project to begin with.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 13 days ago


saedja126-creator
HOBBYOP

13 days ago

Hi Brody, Thanks for checking. I understand there is no volume in the project. But my n8n service there was active and held months of workflow data — I've attached a screenshot showing it running (project diplomatic-expression, service n8n, deployment db889ccf, URL n8n-production-ed0d.up.railway.app). Since there was no volume, it must have stored its data in a database. Was there any Postgres or database backup tied to that deployment that can be recovered? If there's genuinely nothing recoverable, please confirm clearly so I can stop waiting. Thank you.

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Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 13 days ago


Railway
BOT

13 days ago

There was no Postgres or other database service in the diplomatic-expression project, only the n8n service. Since that service had no volume attached, its data (including n8n's built-in SQLite database with your workflows and credentials) lived on ephemeral storage, which is not recoverable. Going forward, attach a volume to any stateful service and enable volume backups so you can self-restore if this happens again.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 13 days ago


saedja126-creator
HOBBYOP

13 days ago

Thanks


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 13 days ago


Status changed to Solved Railway 13 days ago


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