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How I accidentally wiped my server by having a typo in my Nextcloud docker config (feddit.it)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So, I moved my nextcloud directory from a local SATA drive to a NFS mount from a nvme array on a 10G network

"I just need to change /docker/nextcloud to /mnt/nfs/nextcloud in the docker-compose.yml, what's the issue, i do it live" - i tell myself

So i stop the container, copy /docker/nextcloud to /mnt/nfs/nextcloud, then edit the docker-compose.yml... and.... because I'm doing it during a phone call without paying too much attention i change the main directory to /docker

I rebuild the container and I immediately hear a flood of telegram notifications from my uptime-kuma bot.... oh oh...

Looks like the nextcloud docker image has an initialization script that if it doesn't find the files in the directory, it will delete everything and install a fresh copy of nextcloud... so it deleted everything on my server

Luckily i had a very recent full borg backup and i'm restoring it (i kinda love-hate borg, i always forget the restore commands when in panic and the docs are a bit cryptic for me)

Lessons learned:

always double check everything
offsite backups are a must (if i accidentally wrote / as path, i would have lost also the borg backups!)
offsite backups should not be permanently mounted, otherwise they would have been wiped as well
learn how to use and schedule filesystem snapshots, so the recovery wouldn't take ages like it's taking right now (2+ hours and i'm not even half way...)

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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I did the exact same thing 3 or so years ago. Thankfully I already had a backup but it was a bit nerve wracking to log in to next cloud and it was empty and then browsing the mount and having it also be empty

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 7 points 2 years ago

there's user error in this case, but imho it's a bug that the initialization scripts deletes hundreds of gb without any warning or an override command. Files weren't even owned by www-data! Ok to copy new install files, but not wipe clean...

if one day some web exploit manages to delete/rename/move the file that the script detects as "installation done", it could lead to a worldwide massive data loss when the server reboots