2025.5: Two Million Strong and Getting Better

Tried to get Better, didnt work out. tried to restore this mornings backup:

complete /config folder got wiped… while in the Dashboard, an eery experience.

managed to get to the system menu items (my own yaml config is gone) and trying to restore once again, but this remains in view…
o dear

can we somehow check if this is actually active, or hanging?

I can still ssh in but ha core logs ends with:

  File "<frozen os>", line 227, in makedirs
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/config/.storage'
2025-05-12 14:38:03.188 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant] Error doing job: Task exception was never retrieved (None)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/storage.py", line 520, in _async_callback_final_write
    await self._async_handle_write_data()
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/storage.py", line 540, in _async_handle_write_data
    await self._async_write_data(self.path, data)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/storage.py", line 545, in _async_write_data
    await self.hass.async_add_executor_job(self._write_data, self.path, data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 59, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/storage.py", line 549, in _write_data
    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(path), exist_ok=True)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen os>", line 227, in makedirs

I managed to pull of a ha core start in the Terminal, and got a working Frontend. However, still non files in the /config ???:

and whopper, gone is the Dashboard again.
I am completely lost what to do

update
was able somehow to restart via the Terminal (HA interface wouldnt let me because of ‘no configuration.yaml’ that meanwhile had been set back manually…)

Ive immediately unencrypted local backups, as it was impossible to backup via the Backup integration, and that at least gives me the files so I can manually restore if this is to happen once again.
Completely clueless (obviously…) yet as to what happened. (supposing at least it did not have to do with todays ESPHome update )

remarkable is that all of the device/entities/integrations were there, while the complete .storage was erased.

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