#announcements
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victorious-restaurant-46323
08/02/2023, 10:08 AMHi Team, I use docker compose for self hosted growth book. I just did docker-compose down (NO -v) and docker-compose up -d and everything for wiped. It even asked me to create a user the first time
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white-fireman-22476
08/02/2023, 10:19 AMHi Keshav. I'm sorry to hear that. Docker-compose down when there is not a volume attached will unfortunately mean that the data can not be resurrected. At least to the best of my knowledge.
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victorious-restaurant-46323
08/02/2023, 10:20 AMI have used default docker compose fine which has volume
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white-fireman-22476
08/02/2023, 10:22 AMI do not believe the default mongo service - where the data is stored - does have a volume specified.
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victorious-restaurant-46323
08/02/2023, 10:23 AMah i see, growthbook has a volume specified but mongo has none
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white-fireman-22476
08/02/2023, 10:23 AMcorrect
Was there a specific reason you did docker-compose down?
I can bring it up with the engineering team about adding a volume to the mongo container in the default docker image, but they might not want it for data security or performance reasons.
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victorious-restaurant-46323
08/02/2023, 10:27 AMschema browser was giving this issue so I first thought to restart it
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white-fireman-22476
08/02/2023, 10:27 AMPerhaps we can make it clearer in the docs too, that doing docker-compose down is dangerous.
I hope you didn't lose too much data.
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victorious-restaurant-46323
08/02/2023, 10:27 AM@white-fireman-22476 but how would the data persist if team is worried about performance issues. Is there an alternate way
no no, we had just started
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white-fireman-22476
08/02/2023, 10:28 AMoh good phew
The data persists as long as the docker container is not stopped or deleted. We also have export functionality.
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victorious-restaurant-46323
08/02/2023, 10:30 AMisnt it danegrous. Suppose for things beyond control a server stops and restarts then data is gone
adding volume worked so thats good
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white-fireman-22476
08/02/2023, 10:36 AMYes personally I always set a volume. It does seem to me personally a bit dangerous to not have a volume specified.
And sorry to hear that you will have to recreate your work so far. It looks like you might have been experiencing some permission or other issue in connecting with your datasource. If you run into that problem again let us know and we can try to help.
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victorious-restaurant-46323
08/02/2023, 10:38 AMSure, no issues. We were just starting so thankfully only thing was user access
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fresh-football-47124
08/02/2023, 4:55 PM
lets improve this in the docs
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white-fireman-22476
08/02/2023, 4:55 PMAlready done: https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook/pull/1535
Just needs to be approved
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