openclaw-backup

What This Skill Does

The openclaw-backup skill is an essential utility designed to safeguard your OpenClaw environment by automating the backup of critical local configuration files. It acts as a safety net for your AI agent setup, ensuring that your settings, agent definitions, credentials, and identity profiles are never lost due to system failures or accidental deletions. The tool provides a user-friendly, interactive configuration wizard that handles the complex path mappings across Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. Once configured, it manages the lifecycle of your backups, supporting retention policies based on the number of snapshots or storage volume constraints, effectively cleaning up outdated data while keeping your most important configurations secure.

Installation

To install this skill, use the ClawHub command-line interface. Run: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hi-jun/openclaw-backup-hiliang. After installation, navigate to the skill directory within your .openclaw/skills folder. For Windows, execute the scripts/setup.ps1 script to initiate the interactive wizard. For Linux and macOS, grant execution permissions using chmod +x on the setup scripts, then run them to map your backup destination and schedule preferences. Once the setup is complete, the backup scripts are ready for manual execution or integration into system-level cron jobs or Task Scheduler tasks.

Use Cases

• Disaster Recovery: Quickly restore your entire OpenClaw configuration if your machine suffers from OS corruption or hardware failure.
• Environment Migration: Easily export your agent setups, custom skills, and saved identities to a new computer or server by syncing your backup folder.
• Version Control and Snapshotting: Create snapshots before performing significant updates or changes to your agent configurations, allowing you to roll back if a new agent behavior does not meet expectations.

Example Prompts

1. "OpenClaw, please trigger a manual backup now to make sure my latest agent changes are saved."
2. "Show me the status of my recent backups and confirm if the daily automated task is active."
3. "I need to restore my configuration from last Tuesday; can you guide me through the recovery process using the latest backup?"

Tips & Limitations

• Security Warning: Because the backup includes your credentials/ folder, which contains sensitive API keys, ensure that your backup destination is encrypted or stored in a secure, private location with restricted access.
• Automation: While the script is manual-first, we strongly recommend creating a recurring OS-level task to execute the backup script daily.
• Storage Management: If you have limited disk space, leverage the script's capacity-based cleanup features to prevent old, redundant backups from consuming your local storage unnecessarily.