pulumi always creates a backup file called

<thestack>.json.bak

before it tries to mess with the state file (

<thestack>.json

)

or, at least it should

it’s saved me a few times 😅

(note that I don’t work at or on Pulumi – I’ve just had the same problem a few times)

after making the copy, I strongly suggest immediately doing a

pulumi refresh

to make sure you get any state changes that were successfully applied before the

^C