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Now's a good time to make sure you have good backups.
Knowing you can fallback to your backups helps a lot with confidence.
In addition to backups, consider using snapshots if your file system supports it (ZFS, Btrfs, or LVM).
I use ZFS and have each of my Docker volumes in a separate ZFS dataset (similar to a Btrfs subvolume). This lets me snapshot each container independently. I take a snapshot before an upgrade. If the upgrade goes badly, I can instantly revert back to the point before I performed the upgrade.
Having the ability to shut down the main instance of an app and run a secondary instance from backups without much hassle is the best feeling ever, I recently updated from Nextcloud v26 to v31, and having the ability to just go back to a working version if anything was wrong saved me from so much stress.
(And test them before comitting)
backups are useless if you've never tested the restore process, so definitely try restoring to a test environment first befroe you do the upgrade.
That's the noun. For the verb, it's "fall back", with a space.