openclaw-backup-automation

What This Skill Does

The openclaw-backup-automation skill provides a robust, command-line integrated solution for safeguarding your OpenClaw ecosystem. By default, the tool performs a comprehensive snapshot of your entire instance, ensuring that your agents, installed skills, cron configurations, memory files, and core settings are preserved in a secure local tar archive. This tool is designed with a 'privacy-first' philosophy, meaning that sensitive information like API tokens, environment credentials, and external repository syncs are strictly opt-in, ensuring you have total control over your data footprint.

Installation

To integrate this utility into your environment, use the OpenClaw hub command:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/adelpro/openclaw-backup-automation

Once installed, the utility is accessible via the node runtime in your workspace, allowing for manual backups, automated cron integration, or manual restorations.

Use Cases

• Disaster Recovery: Protect your custom agent personalities and memory files against accidental deletion or system corruption.
• Version Control: Create snapshots before performing major system upgrades or experimenting with new skill configurations.
• Instance Migration: Easily package your entire OpenClaw environment to move between local machines or servers.
• Scheduled Maintenance: Automate your backup cadence to ensure a recent recovery point is always available without manual intervention.

Example Prompts

1. "I'm about to test a new complex agent workflow, can you run a full backup of my current setup first?"
2. "I want to ensure my credentials are being saved too, how do I enable the secure backup for my API keys?"
3. "Restore my system from the backup named 'backup-2023-10-27' because I accidentally deleted a critical skill."

Tips & Limitations

Always ensure that you have sufficient disk space allocated for your backups, as memory files and agent logs can grow significantly over time. While the local tar archive is the default, we highly recommend utilizing the Git Sync feature if you work across multiple machines to keep your backups synchronized. Please note that credentials are excluded from default backups to ensure your secrets remain secure; you must explicitly run the credentials-enable command if you require this feature. Always verify your restoration path, and remember that any restore will overwrite existing files—proceed with caution when performing partial agent restores.