[Config Support]: Recordings & motion data unavailable in Frigate afer updating docker-compose.yml

[jerome71]

Describe the problem you are having

When I update docker.compose.yml, recordings and other data produced by Frigate are no longer available in Frigate (as well as users).
Recordings are still in the file system (on a USB drive), but not watchable in the Frigate UI. Previews do not work either.

I've just installed Frigate (on a Pi 5 ) and am playing with it - apart from this I am very impressed, but this (losing a lot of data if updating docker.compose.yml) is not workable in the long run.

Is there a way I can change things like port mapping, networking, device access, without losing previews and recordings?
Is there such a way with Docker compose, with Docker in another way, or should I install Frigate without Docker (if that's even possible)?

Or, is there a way to reprocess old recordings and produce again the lost data?

Thanks in advance.

I'll attach the docker-compose config instead of the Frigate config because it seems more relevant.

Version

0.14.1-f4f3cfa

Frigate config file

services:
  frigate:
    container_name: frigate
    privileged: true # this may not be necessary for all setups
    restart: unless-stopped
    image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable
    shm_size: "64mb"
    devices:
      - /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb #Used for Coral if Available
      - /dev/video10 #Map the Pi hardware acceleration
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /home/igor/frigate-nvr/config.yml:/config/config.yml
      - /home/igor/frigate-nvr/storage:/media/frigate
      - type: tmpfs #Remove this if using a Pi with 2GB or Less RAM
        target: /tmp/cache
        tmpfs:
          size: 1000000000
    ports:
#      - "5000:5000"
      - "1984:1984" #Go2RTC
      - "5353:5353" #mDNS
      - "51827:51827" #HomeKit  
      - "8971:8971"
      - "8554:8554" # RTSP feeds
      - "8555:8555/tcp" # WebRTC over tcp
      - "8555:8555/udp" # WebRTC over udp
    environment:
      FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD: "PASSWORD"

Relevant Frigate log output

No relevant Frigate log output

Relevant go2rtc log output

No relevant go2rtc log output

Frigate stats

No response

Operating system

Debian

Install method

Docker Compose

Object Detector

CPU (no coral)

Screenshots of the Frigate UI's System metrics pages

No response

Any other information that may be helpful

No response

[hawkeye217]

Your database is stored in /config by default, so you need to map the entire /config directory, not just config.yml.

See the docs: https://docs.frigate.video/frigate/installation#docker

[jerome71]

Thank you😊.
Sorry for this - I took a bad tutorial as a startup point.

[hawkeye217]

No worries. There are a number of outdated tutorials out there. The official docs will always be your most up-to-date source.