2 months ago
Hello,
I had an unpaid invoice from September 22, 2025 ($15.30) which I paid today on October 4, 2025. However, my Postgres service was already removed before I could complete the payment.
The service was marked as "REMOVED" and stopped on October 2, 2025 at 05:10:50.
My Postgres service now shows "No deploys for this service" with the last deployment being 4 months ago.
I can see that my volume "grape-volume" still exists with a 5 GB capacity and is configured to mount at /var/lib/postgresql/data.
This volume contains data that I don't want to lose.
Does the volume still contain my PostgreSQL data files?
Can I safely attach this existing volume to a new Postgres deployment without losing any data?
I haven't redeployed anything yet or created any new services because I'm afraid of overwriting the existing volume data and losing everything
Please advise on the safest way to recover my database and restore my n8n instance. If it's possible ...
Thank you for your assistance with this matter.
Best regards
3 Replies
2 months ago
Hey there! We've found the following might help you get unblocked faster:
🧵 Critical Postgres Authentication Failure for Project: daring-contentment
🧵 Data Missing After Payment + Redeploy – No Deletion Warning
🧵 Lost Postgres data after billing – need help recovering volume
If you find the answer from one of these, please let us know by solving the thread!
2 months ago
Do you happen to have your old postgres authentication details? If I remember correctly, you need that in order to retrieve the data from the volume
2 months ago
Assuming you have no backups, the safest and the simplest way for you to make a backup of the volume would be to deploy something like https://railway.com/deploy/Nan7Bs , attach the volume to it, and download your Postgres data directory zipped at pg_data. From there on you should be safe to move forward without worrying about losing your data. When deploying FileBrowser make use to set USE_VOLUME_ROOT=1