Updating clear out channels and sources?

[techno-mike-git]

Hi!
Does updating clear out my channels and sources? I have watchtower that recently update tunarr and it seems to clear out everything. Is there a way to safely update?

[chrisbenincasa]

Can you paste in your docker command / compose file?

[techno-mike-git]

Oh man it clear out my channels again. I might have to turn off watchtower. I believe if I do a recreate with docker it does the same:

services:
  tunarr:
    image: chrisbenincasa/tunarr:latest-vaapi
    container_name: tunarr
    group_add:
      - '107'
    ports:
      - 8088:8000
    environment:
      - LOG_LEVEL=INFO
      - TZ=America/Los_Angeles
      - TUNARR_DATABASE_PATH=/docker/tunarr
    volumes:
      - /docker/tunarr:/config/tunarr
    networks:
      - servarr_default
    devices:
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri

networks:
  servarr_default:
    external: true

[techno-mike-git]

Is it because I have - TUNARR_DATABASE_PATH=/docker/tunarr and the volume config it override each other?

[techno-mike-git]

If I run it without - TUNARR_DATABASE_PATH=/docker/tunarr, it get stuck like so:

tunarr  | 
tunarr  |  _____ _   _ _  _   _   ___ ___ 
tunarr  | |_   _| | | | \| | /_\ | _ \ _ \
tunarr  |   | | | |_| | .` |/ _ \|   /   /
tunarr  |   |_|  \___/|_|\_/_/ \_\_|_\_|_\
tunarr  | 
tunarr  |         0.16.11
tunarr  |  
tunarr  | 
tunarr  | 2024-12-12T17:09:11.153Z [info]: Using Tunarr database directory: /config/tunarr
tunarr  | 2024-12-12T17:09:11.181Z [info]: Searching for legacy dizquetv directory at /.dizquetv
tunarr  | 2024-12-12T17:09:11.181Z [info]: Found legacy dizquetv database folder, but not migrating because an existing Tunarr database was also found
tunarr  | 2024-12-12T17:09:13.958Z [info]: XMLTV Updated at 12/12/2024, 5:09:13 PM
tunarr  | 2024-12-12T17:09:16.207Z [info]: Writing backup to /config/tunarr/backups/tunarr-backup-20241212_170916.tar
tunarr  | 2024-12-12T17:09:16.343Z [info]: Successfully generated backup to /config/tunarr/backups/tunarr-backup-20241212_170916.tar

I put it back and run without the declare volume, it runs again fine but it wipes out my sources and channel again. How do I restore from backup?

[chrisbenincasa]

You are correct that seeing the environment variable was incorrect. That variable value is relative to the inside of the container. It should not really ever be necessary to set that environment variable in a docker scenario.

Assuming you keep restarting the container... there is probably no backup to restore from. Tunarr was saving everything to /docker/tunarr within the container and never your mapped volume, so nothing ever made it out of the container context.

If you do happen to have a backup file outside of your container, you'd move it to the location on the host where you mount the volume, in your case /docker/tunarr. Otherwise, I think you'll have to start fresh once more (and not set that env var anymore)