duplicati

What This Skill Does

The Duplicati skill provides a robust interface for the OpenClaw agent to manage and monitor backup operations on your local or remote server. By leveraging the Duplicati REST API, this skill allows the agent to query server states, trigger specific backup jobs, and investigate failure logs without manual intervention. It serves as an essential utility for system administrators who rely on Duplicati for data integrity and disaster recovery. The skill is designed to translate complex API responses into human-readable status updates, ensuring that users can understand the current phase of their backup processes—such as file verification or data transmission—in plain English.

Installation

To install this skill, use the ClawHub command-line interface. Run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/robnew/duplicati-skill

Ensure that your environment variables, specifically $DUPLICATI_URL and $DUPLICATI_TOKEN, are correctly configured in your OpenClaw settings to allow the agent to authenticate successfully with the server's API.

Use Cases

• Automated Monitoring: Regularly check the status of backup jobs to ensure they are proceeding without errors.
• On-Demand Backups: Trigger urgent off-cycle backups before making major system changes or deployments.
• Error Resolution: Quickly retrieve and parse error logs to identify why a specific backup task failed, reducing downtime and simplifying troubleshooting.
• Capacity Planning: Monitor the FreeSpace on your backup destination to ensure your storage strategy is sustainable.

Example Prompts

1. "Claw, is the media server backup currently running or has it finished?"
2. "Trigger a new backup for the production database job now."
3. "Show me the last 5 error logs for the main storage backup to see what went wrong."

Tips & Limitations

• Name Resolution: Always perform a listing operation first. Because IDs are programmatic, relying on the user's name for a job is risky. The agent is hard-coded to resolve names to IDs to prevent accidental triggers.
• Authentication: This skill is strictly protected by Bearer tokens. Ensure your token is stored securely in your vault; never hardcode credentials in your prompts.
• Status Mapping: The agent maps technical internal states like 'Backup_PreBackupVerify' to user-friendly messages. If you encounter an undocumented state, the agent will provide the raw API output as a fallback.