Yeah, exactly. If you’re starting over from scratch constantly you’re doing something wrong. Check out https://docs.docker.com/storage/ for a few options on how you should be managing your storage.

Part of the problem is you don’t understand how containers work. If you need to do a ‘container wipe’ and starting from scratch, you’re doing it wrong.

I’ve been running nextcloud in k8s for years and running a few occ upgrade commands after an upgrade is annoying but not the end of the world.