Strapi v4 deploy on DigitalOcean overwrites the uploads folder including the images

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System Information
  • Strapi Version: last
  • Operating System:
  • Database:
  • Node Version: postgres

Hello,

I have a github master branch linked to my Droplet DigitalOcean to deploy Strapi, that’s works without problem but when I upload images to the “Media Gallery” and I restart a build my folder “public/uploads” with all this images are deleted and the links are broken.

How can I have use this folder to upload my medias and don’t have this problem every time I rebuild Strapi on DigitalOcean ?
I don’t want use Space AWS3 or other CDN service.

Thanks.

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How are you running it on the do droplet?

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Droplet Basic Plan
Ubuntu 18.04 stack

Linked to GitHub, my master branch with autodeploy is activated.
The public folder is by default in my branch like the .gitignore informations.

public/uploads/*
!public/uploads/.gitkeep

Build Command
npm run build (“strapi build”)

Run Command
npm start ( “strapi start”)

STRAPI VERSION
v4.3.6

NODE VERSION
v16.19.0

EVENTS DIGITALOCEAN
1 Node.js Buildpack v0.3.4
Buildpack Docs
Install dependencies using NPM or Yarn
2 Procfile Buildpack v0.0.3
Configure default run commands from the Procfile if one exists
3 Custom Build Command Buildpack v0.1.1
Buildpack Docs
npm run build

Thank you for helping me.

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I’m going to guess that it runs in a container when it starts, meaning it kills what is inside public/uploads.
You will need to use S3 or other storage options.
Or bind mount the folder to a physical disk etc so it persists container restarts