No persistence vault with self-hosted Node.js server

[Bugsia]

I am running the obsidian web interface on my own server using the Node.js version. As far as I understood the repo, it would then be possible to have the files lying on the server and not relying on local browser storage to keep the files.

However I can't get this to work. It is only storing the vault on the browser sites and once I delete the browser data it is gone.

I am using the obsidian 1.12.7 version and am starting the server using this command: HOST=0.0.0.0 npm start and this is the inital output:

> obsidian-web-server@0.2.0 start
> node index.js

[system-plugins] no /home/livesync/obsidian-web/vendor/plugins directory — skipping
[system-plugins] Loaded 1 system plugins: obsidian-web-layout
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  Obsidian Web
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  Vault:    /home/livesync/obsidian-web/user-data/demo-vault
  Obsidian: /home/livesync/obsidian-web/vendor/obsidian-mobile
  Listening on http://127.0.0.1:3000
==========================================
[bootstrap] vault=… full=false files=0(content:0) dirs=1 size=0KB time=6ms