Hi Community,
I’m a beginner with n8n and self-hosting. Yesterday, I ran into a major problem with my n8n instance on Render. I have already submitted a support request to Render.com (I’m on a Pro plan), but it’s been over 12 hours and I haven’t received any response. I hope someone here might be able to help or share similar experiences.
- The issue started yesterday while I was running a workflow to upload image files to Google Drive. Suddenly, a message appeared in the dashboard about a server connection problem. I tried refreshing the page, but after that I only saw a 502 error.
- I used Render’s “Restore a disk” feature to restore from the most recent backup (from that same day).
- After the restore, I restarted the service.
- When I opened the link to access my n8n dashboard, I was prompted to set up n8n as if it was a brand new instance (asking for name, email, password, etc.).
- After logging in, I discovered that all my old workflows, credentials, and data were missing—the dashboard was empty like a fresh install.
6.This logs and error messages (including “Exited with status 134”) for reference.
Logs : Instance failed: x7wfs
Exited with status 134 while running your code. Check your service logs for more information.
June 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Has anyone experienced this kind of issue?
Is there any way to recover my previous workflows and data?
I would really appreciate any advice or guidance. I’m still waiting for a reply from Render, but I wanted to check here in case anyone else has ideas or solutions.
Additional Info:
- n8n is self-hosted on Render.
- I purchased a 1GB disk and my instance type is 0.5 CPU, 512 MB RAM.
- I set the disk mount path to
/home/node/n8n(following a course/tutorial), but later found out the official documentation recommends/home/node/.n8n. - There was no downtime or issue reported on Render’s status page at the time.
- The problem occurred specifically during a workflow uploading images to Google Drive.
Thank you so much for any help!
Jo