Urgent Help – Lost All n8n Workflows After Disk Corruption

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Hello,

I need urgent help. I’m self-hosting n8n on DigitalOcean, and my server’s disk got corrupted. Unfortunately, I lost access to all my workflows, and I’m unable to recover them from the disk.

Is there any way to recover or restore my automations, either from cached data, Docker volumes, or any hidden backups that n8n might keep? I didn’t have an external backup configured.

Any help or guidance would be truly appreciated.

Thank you.

Best regards,

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Unfortunately if you did not have droplet backups or git repo, then Im afraid you might not be able to recover this. I do understand though that the workflows are stored in the database. So not sure about your setup, but there is either a sqlite instance on disk or if you configured an external db, you can try and connect to that and look in the tables for the workflows

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Hi @Andre_Araujo try this:

  1. Try to recover and enter the droplet in safe mode if your server is corrupted
  2. See if you can access the Docker for your n8n
  3. If you can, see if you can get access to the SQLLite
  4. If you can, then try and pull the data from that - As long as you can get the SQL Lite file and know the password, there is possible hope to recover those automations.

Not sure if you want me to come on a call to help (My direct rates at the moment are pricey but I may be able to possibly find a fix for you) - If that actually is an option then please DM me or email me and my team at [email protected] and we can setup a zoom call.

Also for future reference, here is my video on how to backup your n8n workflows going forward: