Hello Team,
We are facing an unexpected issue with our n8n instance.
All our workflows were present and working correctly until yesterday. However, when we started our work today, we noticed that all of our workflows had been removed from the system. Additionally, the workflow versions appear to have been reverted to a state from approximately one month ago.
We did not make any changes or perform any actions that could have caused this rollback, so we are unsure why this happened.
Has anyone experienced a similar issue before? Could someone help us understand why this might have occurred and how we can restore the latest versions of our workflows?
Our n8n instance is running on a VPS using Docker.
Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Hi @pankaj_ikraft Welcome!
This issue can happen when restarting your n8n instance and docker container restarted and wasn’t properly attached to a persistent volume, and i guess that is why it feels fresh and new, you can check that the old volume exists or not using this:
docker volume ls
docker volume inspect <volume_name>
Let me know then we maybe could reattach it.
Hello @Anshul_Namdev
This happened automatically. We did not attempt any updates or restart the Docker container.
Is there any other possible reason this could occur without any manual action? We were simply using n8n normally when this happened.
Hi @pankaj_ikraft I guess most likely your VPS/Docker host recreated the n8n container, and so in case of some error or something like that it restarted and created a fresh instance by itself, that is why i am asking that is there some kind of another volume which exists and if it does it might be your old one so you can reattach that volume to /home/node/.n8n to get all of your old stuff back.