Lost workflows after updating N8N

Ricky_Wolff June 4, 2024, 8:24pm 1

Hi there,

I lost my workflows when updating to a new version of N8N. I’m self hosting on a Digital Ocean droplet and unfortunately I didn’t back up. Previous upgrades were always without issue.

I updated using the following commands

ssh [email protected]
cd n8n-docker-caddy
docker compose pull
docker compose down
docker compose up -d

Are my workflows lost forever, or can I retrieve them in some way? I’m not very good with using the terminal (as you can see). Would appreciate your help!

Information on your n8n setup

**n8n version: 1.42.1
Database (default: SQLite):
n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):
**Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): Docker
Operating system:

This is my Docker Compose file

barn4k June 4, 2024, 9:01pm 2

Actually that’s strange. As I see, you have configured volumes so the n8n and DB’s data should be there

Ricky_Wolff June 4, 2024, 9:09pm 3

Yea would there be anything I can do get my workflows back?

I didn’t lose all workflow but only my most recent ones that I worked on about a month ago.

Ricky_Wolff June 5, 2024, 6:22am 4

Looking at my execution history of the workflows still in my instance, it seems I also lost the execution history.

Ricky_Wolff June 5, 2024, 8:28pm 5

Does anyone know if it would be possible to restore my missing workflows?

system Closed September 3, 2024, 8:29pm 6

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