Last weekend I got a bit cocky and decided to upgrade the distro on the NextcloudPi. The upgrade seemed to go well until it threw a PHP error which got me going in circles. In hindsight, I’d setup automatic upgrades on NextcloudPi and Nextcloud, which seems to have conflicted with the actual distribution’s update. Now I did take a backup, but that didn’t quite sit well with the now upgraded system and the myriad PHP issues. ...
Ouch! After a good couple years of unhindered access, I’ve lost (remote) access to my RPI server. I’m guessing an auto upgrade might have disabled wireguard or flushed the ip table rules. I should have had a secondary connection to the remote network since I did anticipate this happening sometime! Well, until I have physical access to the server, I’ll have to bank on my cold flash drive backups! So glad I have multiple accessible copies of the data files! ...