Open khaled-badenjki opened 1 month ago
How are you running restore? And can you provide the full logs that lead up to that error?
I'm running restore like this:
bin/rails litestream:restore -- --database=storage/production.sqlite3
The logs are only the command above, and this error message:
level=ERROR msg="failed to run" error="cannot restore, output path already exists: /rails/storage/production.sqlite3"
I also ran into something similar. I got it to work like so:
production.sqlite3
/production.sqlite3-shm
/production.sqlite3-wal
.production.sqlite3
, and thus you end up getting the output path already exists error.Indeed. And rails db:drop
can be used to delete the 3 SQLite files
@oandalib would you want to open a PR to add a section to the README detailing when one might want to restore to a new server, why the restore
command can't be run until after db:drop
, and the importance of restarting the Docker container
I think we need to better define the entire restoration process, not strictly just for a new server. See #52.
If I'm on a server A with a rails app (running with Kamal 2) and using Litestream. Then i decided to move my app to a new server B
The data is already synced to my S3, when I moved to server B i tried to restore the database, but i got this error
error="cannot restore, output path already exists: /rails/storage/production.sqlite3"
I deleted the existing sqlite files and then I restored. It didn't throw errors, but I wasn't able to access the data. I felt that manually deleting the sqlite files is not a good action since there are already
shm
andwal
files.What should be the better way to handle my scenario?