# I deleted an app by mistake - can it be restored? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions / Help\ **Tags:** volumes\ **Created:** [August 2, 2026, 9:47am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403 "2026-08-02T09:47:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![efrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6bbea6/32.png) [@efrd](https://community.fly.io/u/efrd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 9:47am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403/1 "2026-08-02T09:47:41Z")
i delete in the dashboard an app can i restore it ---
**Author:** ![halfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@halfer](https://community.fly.io/u/halfer)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 11:43am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403/2 "2026-08-02T11:43:14Z")
Did it have valuable data in it e.g. on the ephemeral disk or on a volume? In general apps don’t need to be restorable, as the application part is throwaway. Supply as much detail as you can. ---
**Author:** ![efrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6bbea6/32.png) [@efrd](https://community.fly.io/u/efrd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 11:50am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403/3 "2026-08-02T11:50:33Z")
> [@halfer](#): > > ou can I have a backup of the software itself, but the information stored in it has been deleted and is not backed up. ---
**Author:** ![halfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@halfer](https://community.fly.io/u/halfer)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 11:52am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403/4 "2026-08-02T11:52:23Z")
Oh dear; that is not good. Is the information on a volume, or was it on the machine’s file system? ---
**Author:** ![efrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6bbea6/32.png) [@efrd](https://community.fly.io/u/efrd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 11:56am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403/5 "2026-08-02T11:56:02Z")
I’m not very knowledgeable about it and I don’t know the difference. The software was a database that users entered information into. ---
**Author:** ![lillian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/lillian/32/49616_2.png) [@lillian](https://community.fly.io/u/lillian)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403/6 "2026-08-02T12:04:06Z")
generally this isn’t possible but I can try to see if it can be recovered, what is the app name? ---
**Author:** ![efrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6bbea6/32.png) [@efrd](https://community.fly.io/u/efrd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403/7 "2026-08-02T12:06:21Z")
kollel-efraim ---
**Author:** ![lillian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/lillian/32/49616_2.png) [@lillian](https://community.fly.io/u/lillian)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403/8 "2026-08-02T12:24:22Z")
ok, I was able to restore that app and one of its volumes. please redeploy your app using the existing volume and let me know if your data is accessible. in the future, make sure to take backups so you still have the information if your app is deleted. ---
**Author:** ![halfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@halfer](https://community.fly.io/u/halfer)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403/9 "2026-08-02T12:43:10Z")
> [@efrd](#): > > I’m not very knowledgeable about it and I don’t know the difference. The software was a database that users entered information into. OK. So, Fly machines are often called “ephemeral”. Taken literally, the word means “lasting for a short time”; in this context it means “throwaway”. In the cloud world (the last 15 years or so), apps should be resilient to being destroyed and recreated. Have a look at [this advice](https://12factor.net/) - particularly the bits about **statelessness** and **disposability**. It is translated into many languages, so you can probably read it in your first language. I hope you can restore your data, but either way, make sure you can recover your app if your disk is destroyed. Backups are a good start, but they are only as good as the last one - if you back up hourly but your data changes by the minute, then you can lose up to an hour’s worth of changes. ---
**Author:** ![efrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6bbea6/32.png) [@efrd](https://community.fly.io/u/efrd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403/10 "2026-08-02T12:43:55Z")
> [@lillian](#): > > ok, I was able to restore that app and one of its volumes. please redeploy your app using the existing volume and let me know if your data is accessible. when im try to do so this what happend: D:\local\_3aecc4c1-fcad-4d72-b74d-037d22f630c5\outputs\>fly deploy ==\> Verifying app config Validating D:\local\_3aecc4c1-fcad-4d72-b74d-037d22f630c5\outputs\fly.toml ✓ Configuration is valid → Verified app config Error: app not found (Request ID: 01KZ17W1N65WWG38P5VYF8KRJY-fra) (Trace ID: b4297d3c072232a7f3f907d64bbc0ae4) ---
**Author:** ![efrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6bbea6/32.png) [@efrd](https://community.fly.io/u/efrd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403/12 "2026-08-02T12:51:00Z")
Ok I found the problem and managed to upload it again. ---
**Author:** ![efrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6bbea6/32.png) [@efrd](https://community.fly.io/u/efrd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403/14 "2026-08-02T13:00:28Z")
> [@lillian](#): > > ok, I was able to restore that app and one of its volumes. please redeploy your app using the existing volume and let me know if your data is accessible. > in the future, make sure to take backups so you still have the information if your app is deleted. Thank you very much, everything works as before and all the data is there, thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![halfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@halfer](https://community.fly.io/u/halfer)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403/15 "2026-08-02T15:17:14Z")
@efrd: Is setting up a data backup now an urgent priority for you? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/original/3X/6/e/6e8955d00cb218e186ebbe3a6ab06fefdce15290.svg) [@system](https://community.fly.io/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/i-deleted-an-app-by-mistake-can-it-be-restored/28403/17 "2026-08-04T20:08:12Z")
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