# Workflow for persistent data across updates (internal golden updates) **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [June 17, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/workflow-for-persistent-data-across-updates-internal-golden-updates/2062 "2020-06-17T16:23:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ryanbedford](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/ryanbedford/32/651_2.png) [@ryanbedford](https://hub.mender.io/u/ryanbedford)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/workflow-for-persistent-data-across-updates-internal-golden-updates/2062/1 "2020-06-17T16:23:53Z")
Developers are working on a new internal golden image (NO MENDER). They have a place where user data files exists and persist. How do they make the transition from golden image (NO MENDER CLIENT or /data directory) to a Mender golden image? Are they to create a /data directory in the internal golden image? Will that stay when making a mender golden image? I guess the basic question can be summed up by asking… Where do developers write persistent data to on a NON MENDER image? Ryan ---
**Author:** ![drewmoseley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/drewmoseley/32/47_2.png) [@drewmoseley](https://hub.mender.io/u/drewmoseley)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/workflow-for-persistent-data-across-updates-internal-golden-updates/2062/2 "2020-06-17T17:18:19Z")
Hi @ryanbedford if you put the files in /data in your non-mender golden image, mender-convert will arrange for them to be in the /data partition of the converted image. Drew ---
**Author:** ![ryanbedford](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/ryanbedford/32/651_2.png) [@ryanbedford](https://hub.mender.io/u/ryanbedford)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/workflow-for-persistent-data-across-updates-internal-golden-updates/2062/3 "2020-06-17T19:50:05Z")
Awesome @drewmoseley! Makes sense, thank you! ---
**Author:** ![ryanbedford](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/ryanbedford/32/651_2.png) [@ryanbedford](https://hub.mender.io/u/ryanbedford)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/workflow-for-persistent-data-across-updates-internal-golden-updates/2062/4 "2020-06-18T13:19:06Z")
@drewmoseley So if I put a /data directory in the rootfs overlay, will files in there get deployed out as well? ---
**Author:** ![mirzak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/mirzak/32/2056_2.png) [@mirzak](https://hub.mender.io/u/mirzak)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/workflow-for-persistent-data-across-updates-internal-golden-updates/2062/5 "2020-06-18T13:41:11Z")
Indeed it should @ryanbedford ---
**Author:** ![marizonne.villafranc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@marizonne.villafranc](https://hub.mender.io/u/marizonne.villafranc)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 7:01am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/workflow-for-persistent-data-across-updates-internal-golden-updates/2062/6 "2021-08-02T07:01:47Z")
Hi, How do you add the persistent config files to /data? I did this … ```auto do_install_append () { install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/canstartup.sh ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/seccwifiAPsetup.sh ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/nvm.sh ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/emmc install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/install_emmc.sh ${D}${sysconfdir}/emmc install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/json install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/config.json ${D}${sysconfdir}/json install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/productionData.json ${D}${sysconfdir}/json install -d ${D}/data ln -s ${D}${sysconfdir}/json ${D}/data/json update-rc.d -r ${D} nvm.sh start 50 5 . update-rc.d -r ${D} canstartup.sh start 51 5 . update-rc.d -r ${D} seccwifiAPsetup.sh start 52 5 . } FILES_${PN} += "${D}/data \ ${D}/data/json \ " ``` But, I got this error: ```auto ERROR: initscripts-1.0-r155 do_package: QA Issue: initscripts: Files/directories were installed but not shipped in any package: /data /data/json Please set FILES such that these items are packaged. Alternatively if they are unneeded, avoid installing them or delete them within do_install. initscripts: 2 installed and not shipped files. [installed-vs-shipped] ERROR: initscripts-1.0-r155 do_package: Fatal QA errors found, failing task. ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/herodev/hero-yocto-mender/build/tmp/work/hero_secc-poky-linux-gnueabi/initscripts/1.0-r155/temp/log.do_package.16886 ERROR: Task (/home/herodev/hero-yocto-mender/sources/poky/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb:do_package) failed with exit code '1' ``` ---
**Author:** ![kacf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/kacf/32/146_2.png) [@kacf](https://hub.mender.io/u/kacf)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 7:45am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/workflow-for-persistent-data-across-updates-internal-golden-updates/2062/7 "2021-08-02T07:45:56Z")
The `FILES` variable does not use `${D}`. Just remove it, and you should be fine. ---
**Author:** ![marizonne.villafranc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@marizonne.villafranc](https://hub.mender.io/u/marizonne.villafranc)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/workflow-for-persistent-data-across-updates-internal-golden-updates/2062/8 "2021-08-02T23:47:46Z")
Thank you very much for your quick reply! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![marizonne.villafranc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@marizonne.villafranc](https://hub.mender.io/u/marizonne.villafranc)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/workflow-for-persistent-data-across-updates-internal-golden-updates/2062/9 "2021-08-03T00:21:45Z")
I think this should be the proper implementation: ```auto SRC_URI += " file://config.json \ file://productionData.json \ " FILES_${PN} = "/var/lib/hero-secc/factorydata \ /var/lib/hero-secc/userdata \ /data/hero-secc/factorydata \ /data/hero-secc/userdata \ " do_install() { install -d -m 755 ${D}/data/hero-secc/factorydata install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/productionData.json ${D}/data/hero-secc/factorydata install -d -m 755 ${D}/var/lib/hero-secc/factorydata ln -s /data/hero-secc/factorydata ${D}/var/lib/hero-secc/factorydata install -d -m 755 ${D}/data/hero-secc/userdata install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/config.json ${D}/data/hero-secc/userdata install -d -m 755 ${D}/var/lib/hero-secc/userdata ln -s /data/hero-secc/userdata ${D}/var/lib/hero-secc/userdata } ```