Preserve ingestion data across rebuilds

README.md

@@ -64,6 +64,21 @@ docker compose exec qdrant sh -c "tar czf /backups/qdrant-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d)
 docker run --rm -v local-context7_data:/data -v $(pwd)/backups:/backups qdrant/qdrant:latest tar czf /backups/qdrant-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz /qdrant/storage
 ```
 
+### Rebuild Without Losing Sources or Ingestion
+
+Normal image rebuilds preserve Git source definitions, cloned repositories,
+uploaded documents, SQLite metadata, Qdrant vectors, and the embedding model
+cache because they are bind-mounted from the host.
+
+```bash
+git pull
+docker compose up -d --build
+```
+
+Do not delete `data/`, `docs/`, or `docs_sources.yaml`. Do not run the reset
+commands below unless you intentionally want to erase the indexed data and
+source configuration.
+
 ### Safe Reset Command
 
 To reset both SQLite and Qdrant cleanly:
@@ -428,4 +443,4 @@ For Docker-based deployment, consider using an authentication middleware or a de
 - Chunk overlap configuration via environment variables
 - Batch index endpoint improvements
 - Metrics/logging aggregation (e.g., Prometheus + Grafana)
-- Plugin system for additional data sources
+- Plugin system for additional data sources