I lost all my images and containers

[bjansen]

Hi,

I updated colima to 0.9.1 last friday using brew upgrade, rebooted my mac this morning and saw that all my containers and images are gone. I can still see volumes, but docker ps -a and docker images -a return nothing.

Am I doomed, or is there a way to restore my containers?

% colima version
colima version 0.9.1
git commit: 0cbf719f5409ce04b9f0607b681c005d2ff7d94a

runtime: docker
arch: aarch64
client: v28.4.0
server: v24.0.7

[abiosoft]

Can you share the output of the following command

colima ssh -- df -h

[bjansen]

% colima ssh -- df -h
Filesystem       Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root         58G   54G  3.7G  94% /
tmpfs            2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs            781M  1.1M  780M   1% /run
tmpfs            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
efivarfs         256K   16K  241K   6% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/vda16       891M   89M  740M  11% /boot
/dev/vda15        98M  6.3M   92M   7% /boot/efi
tmpfs            391M  4.0K  391M   1% /run/user/504
/dev/sr0          47M   47M     0 100% /mnt/lima-cidata
:/Users/bastien  461G  392G   69G  86% /Users/bastien

[abiosoft]

Can you share the output of docker context ls and docker system df?

[bjansen]

% docker context ls
NAME        DESCRIPTION                               DOCKER ENDPOINT                                     ERROR
colima      colima                                    unix:///Users/bastien/.colima/default/docker.sock   
default *   Current DOCKER_HOST based configuration   unix:///Users/bastien/.colima/default/docker.sock   
Warning: DOCKER_HOST environment variable overrides the active context. To use a context, either set the global --context flag, or unset DOCKER_HOST environment variable.

% echo $DOCKER_HOST 
unix:///Users/bastien/.colima/default/docker.sock

 % docker system df
TYPE            TOTAL     ACTIVE    SIZE      RECLAIMABLE
Images          6         0         2.054GB   -7.541e+08B (-36%)
Containers      0         0         0B        0B
Local Volumes   216       0         24.7GB    24.7GB (100%)
Build Cache     0         0         0B        0B

These 6 images were pulled this morning by testcontainers when I ran JUnit tests.

[abiosoft]

This is very strange.

[bjansen]

Luckily, the most important containers were PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases, which means all the data is stored in volumes that are still here. By looking at the size of the volume directories and their content, I can more or less guess which volume was used by a lost container, and create an identical container bound to this volume. I tested it on a postgres container and was able to retrieve all the tables.

Still, I find it very strange that all my containers disappeared for no apparent reason. I'd also like to avoid recreating my containers one by one :/