openclaw-backup

Every step ends on a gate. A gate is a check that produces evidence. A gate you did not run is a gate that failed. The failure this skill is built against is silent: an archive that writes cleanly, verifies cleanly, and turns out to be missing the thing you needed.

Input

• Nothing. Back up the OpenClaw install on the current machine.
• A host. Pass user@host and prefix every command with your SSH invocation. The steps are otherwise identical.

Detect what you can. Ask only for the backup destination, which defaults to ~/backups/<date>-preflight, and whether to pull a copy off-box.

Step 0: Preflight

STATE_DIR="${OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR:-$HOME/.openclaw}"
[ -d "$STATE_DIR" ] || { echo "FAIL: no OpenClaw state dir at $STATE_DIR"; exit 1; }