an hour ago
Hi Railway team, my workspace shows “Trial expired,” and both my app and PostgreSQL are offline. The original volume still appears attached to PostgreSQL, and the Usage page shows storage usage. The Backups tab says “No Backups.”
Before upgrading, could you confirm when my trial credits expired, whether the original PostgreSQL volume is still retained, and when it is scheduled for deletion?
If the volume is still available, would upgrading to Hobby let me start the existing PostgreSQL service and export the data without recreating the service or volume? Would the upgrade also restart the app automatically? My priority is to export the database before bringing the app back online.
Thank you.
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an hour ago
Your PostgreSQL volume still exists and is attached to the Postgres service, holding roughly 117 MB of data. We can't confirm from here the exact date your trial credits ran out or a deletion date for the volume, so please don't rely on it being kept indefinitely.
Subscribing to Hobby doesn't create a new database or volume. Once the subscription is active, we automatically redeploy the services that were stopped when the trial ended, using their existing configuration. The existing Postgres service redeploys with that same volume mounted, so you can export from it without recreating anything.
That recovery applies to every stopped service in the workspace, so your app will restart automatically too. Checkout has no option to bring back only the database first. Recovery happens automatically only within 30 days of the services being stopped. After that, you redeploy each service yourself, which means you can start Postgres first and leave the app until later.
Hobby doesn't include volume backups. Creating or restoring backups requires Pro.
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