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# Wiping Insight Data

If you want to start over with a clean deployment, you can wipe all of your stored data before redeploying.
Because Docker volumes are separate from containers, the data stored there is normally preserved even if you remove and redeploy the containers. If you want to start over with a clean deployment of one or more components, you must wipe the appropriate volumes before redeploying. Most Insight data is stored in the following volumes:

- Insight with file system persistence: `insight-filesystem_data`
- Insight with MySQL database persistence: `insight-mysql-db_data`

Note: If you want to completely remove all containers and volumes defined in the Docker Compose configuration, you can use the `docker compose -f config-file.yaml down --volumes` command. This would include the Workbench container and volumes. For more information, see the Docker documentation.
To wipe your stored data, follow these steps:

1. If the containers are currently running, stop them.
2. (Optional) Back up the data persistence volume.
   For more information about backing up volumes, see the Docker documentation.
3. Run the `docker rm` command to delete the container to which the data persistence volume is mounted.
   - If you are using file system persistence, delete the server container, as in this example:

         docker rm insight-filesystem-server-1

   - If you are using MySQL database persistence, delete the database container, as in this example:

         docker rm insight-mysql-db-1

4. Run the `docker volume rm` command to delete the data persistence volume.
   - For file system persistence:

         docker volume rm insight-filesystem_data

   - For MySQL database persistence:

         docker volume rm insight-mysql_db_data

You can now redeploy and restart the containers. New data persistence volumes will be created and mounted.
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