OpenClaw backup and recovery guides.
Practical operating guides for backup strategy, restore drills, update survival, and encrypted disaster recovery with ReClaw.
Guides
- OpenClaw backup strategy explains what state to protect and how to choose backup cadence.
- OpenClaw restore drill verifies a ReClaw archive in a safe path before an outage.
- OpenClaw update survival checklist creates a recovery path before package, auth, config, or skill changes.
- OpenClaw backup and disaster recovery walks through installation, vault bootstrap, backup creation, metadata inspection, streaming progress, and archive restore.
Start Here
If you only run one workflow, run the restore drill. It proves that a backup can be downloaded, decrypted, and verified before a live failure forces the issue.
reclaw backup bootstrap
reclaw backup create --label "First restore drill"
reclaw backup restore <backup-id> --verify --output /safe/path/openclaw-backup.tar.gz