Well I am glad that things are back working.
that it stays like that.
IPFire does do a backup of the system as the first part of an upgrade.
However that stays on the system and in case something goes wrong enough that I can’t access the IPFire directory structure then I always do a backup before each upgrade and copy it off of the IPFire machine. That includes the addon backups.
Only had to use it once but I feel good that I have it available in case I need it.
I also have a script that runs the backup every Saturday and the backup is backed-up up to my bacula backup storage daemon which is off of the IPFire machine.
Maybe a bit over the top but I will always have a backup available.
It came in useful to me when my hardware died catastrophically a couple of years ago. New hardware purchased and IPFire installed and the latest backup restored.