Durability errors
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Errorsβ
- Snapshot or WAL directory don't exist, there is nothing to recover. For more details, visit: memgr.ph/durability.
- No snapshot or WAL file found. For more details, visit: memgr.ph/durability.
- Couldn't get WAL file info from the WAL directory. For more details, visit: memgr.ph/durability.
Why are snapshot and WAL files missing?β
There are two options:
Docker not persisting dataβ
It's possible that your Docker containers donβt persist data by default (all
changes are lost when the container is stopped). You need to use local volumes
to store the data permanently which is why Memgraph is started with the -v
flag:
docker run -p 7687:7687 -v mg_lib:/var/lib/memgraph memgraph/memgraph
More information on Docker Volumes can be found here.
Memgraph data directory not set correctlyβ
Make sure that Memgraph is searching for the snapshot files in the right
directory. The Memgraph configuration is available in
/etc/memgraph/memgraph.conf
and you can specify the directory with the
--data-directory
flag. If the configuration file is altered, Memgraph needs to
be restarted. The default directory is /var/lib/memgraph
. To learn about all
the configuration options, check out the Reference
guide.
If you weren't able to find the error, please submit it through a Support Ticket so we can look into it and get back to you.