Lost my account and secrets when the conjur_server docker container stopped unexpectedly. Is there a way to retrieve everything back Conjur

Secrets Management - Conjur, Secrets Hub & CP
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When i am working with conjur ( using conjur open source ), my conjur_server docker container stopped unexpectedly. So I have lost my account and all secrets in it. Is there any way to retrieve it.

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following cos thats concerning… Can you not specify the storage space as on the host outside the container for this reason?

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Hi Wazeem. As long as your postgres and Conjur containers have not been removed from Docker you should be able to recover your secrets. A few questions for you:

  1. Is your postgres container still running? You can check with docker ps
  2. Is your Conjur container still listed if you run docker ps -a?

If the answer to both of these questions is yes, grab the container ID of Conjur from the left-most column of the docker ps -a output and start the Conjur container up again with docker container start <CONTAINER_ID>. That should put you back where you started.

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When I re-run the conjur container and tried to login again with that account showing
error: Failed to open TCP connection to conjur:80 (Connection refused - connect(2) for "conjur" port 80)

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Hi Wazeem,

Could you please try to run the commands above mentioned by John Tuttle. We need to make sure that the database is still active.

Thanks,
Andrew

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Regarding persistent/external storage, there is many different approaches to have external storage. I personally think the easiest way to have an external store is by changing the connection string DATABASE_URL within the conjur server, more information regarding this process can be found here Conjur Persistent Database Guide.

Thanks,
Andrew

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I second this. If the guide is missing steps PM me them and I’ll edit it or comment them on the post for people to follow

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Hi John,

Both conjur and postgres container are running. I even tried to restart them. I verified with netstat that port 80 is actually listening and I even turned off the firewall. I keep getting this error:

error: Failed to open TCP connection to conjur:80 (Connection refused - connect(2) for “conjur” port 80)

Seems there maybe some issue with presitence. I may have to start from fresh install.

Regrads,
Bobby