# Building bootstrap error

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So even without the container, it appears you have some state of the database potentially intact. Whatever you experiment with, keep a copy of this safe.

The way things are set up you can normally access the DB from within container as it sits on a docker volume.

If you can get a container built again you may be able to access this again, or else you would need to install postgres on the server (but that will be redundant once you get things working again).

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