My n8n rollback all workflows to an outdated version.
Recently I’ve been facing a big problem; this is the second time on Mondays that I’ve experienced a rollback to October 26th. I don’t know why this is happening, if it was something misconfigured or something I might have done, but we’ve been using n8n for months and only recently started experiencing this.
Information on your n8n setup
n8n version: 1.113.3
Database (default: SQLite): SQLite
n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): default i guess
Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): docker
Operating system: ubuntu selfhosted docker in digital ocean
You both are using SQLLite, typically rollbacks of data, can be attributed to SQL database itself if some of the data isn’t committed. If its a data problem, look at whats commiting it to the database, if its rolling back actual workflows and other things… well, that maybe a different story
The strange thing from my point of view is that it is seemingly random. I can be working on a workflow save it, leave it running for a few days and then it reverts sometimes days into the past.
Although it seems to have been stable for a few days now…
Is there a way to change from SQLite to a different DB when using Docker?
I just discovered this issue as well. We lost WEEKS of updates. Completely gone. Saved, running, active scripts just completely rolled back or missing to weeks prior.
Debug info
core
n8nVersion: 1.116.2
platform: docker (self-hosted)
nodeJsVersion: 22.18.0
nodeEnv: production
database: sqlite
executionMode: regular
concurrency: -1
license: enterprise (production)
consumerId: 9f797e82-c519-4f72-b8e0-86f66771bb3a
storage
success: all
error: all
progress: false
manual: true
binaryMode: memory
pruning
enabled: true
maxAge: 336 hours
maxCount: 10000 executions
client
userAgent: mozilla/5.0 (x11; linux x86_64; rv:145.0) gecko/20100101 firefox/145.0
isTouchDevice: false
Generated at: 2025-11-29T02:32:48.353Z
This is nightmare fuel.
It 100% rolled back actual workflows. Every single workflow is back to how it was 2 weeks ago, I have 7 that have been updated, some significantly, entire data tables missing, it’s like someone restored a backup from two weeks ago over the top.
I am looking through logs right now and can provide them to support but this is a serious critical issue.
