Update beyond my control in my project in production environment-lost data

[lubien]

Unfortunately we do not store data from the ephemeral VMs by design.

We would have backups for volumes though: Create and manage volumes · Fly Docs

And also very very recently we release persistent rootfs but that is opt-in:

Your RootFS, Reboot-Resistant: Try `persist_rootfs`

We’ve said it before: never use the root filesystem from your application image to persist state. At best, it’s ephemeral. After a machine restart or an update, there’s no guarantee your data will still be there. We’ve seen users learn this the hard way, storing important data on the root filesystem only to have it vanish at the worst possible moment. The root filesystem isn’t backed up. It should never be trusted to hold valuable data. That part isn’t changing. But we get it: starting from a …