25 days ago
Is it possible to attach the same existing app volume used by the main app service to a separate backup/cron service in the same Railway project?
I’ve set up a separate service in my Railway project to run scheduled backup jobs, but I’m unable to attach or share the main backend service’s mounted media volume at /app/media with that backup service. Because of that, the backup job can only see image-bundled files, not the live uploaded media, so I can’t back up the real media files.
1 Replies
25 days ago
Volumes cannot be shared between services. Each volume is attached to exactly one service, and there is no way to mount the same volume to multiple services within a project. For your backup use case, you would need to access the files over the network, for example by exposing an API or file-transfer endpoint on your main service that the backup service can call via private networking.
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 25 days ago
Status changed to Solved avpatel18 • 25 days ago