Lost workflows after updating N8N

Questions
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

  1. ssh root@157.xxx.xxx.xx
  2. cd n8n-docker-caddy
  3. docker compose pull
  4. docker compose down
  5. 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

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2

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

3

Yea :frowning: 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.

4

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

5

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