🔄 Update Plus

A comprehensive backup, update, and restore tool for your OpenClaw environment. Protect your config, workspace, and skills with automatic rollback, encrypted backups, and cloud sync.

Quick Start

# Check for available updates
update-plus check

# Create a full backup
update-plus backup

# Update everything (creates backup first)
update-plus update

# Preview changes (no modifications)
update-plus update --dry-run

# Restore from backup
update-plus restore openclaw-backup-2026-01-25-12:00:00.tar.gz

Features

| Feature | Description | |---------|-------------| | Full Backup | Backup entire environment (config, workspace, skills) | | Auto Backup | Creates backup before every update | | Auto Rollback | Reverts to previous commit if update fails | | Smart Restore | Restore everything or specific parts (config, workspace) | | Multi-Directory | Separate prod/dev skills with independent update settings | | Encrypted Backups | Optional GPG encryption | | Cloud Sync | Upload backups to Google Drive, S3, Dropbox via rclone | | Notifications | Get notified via WhatsApp, Telegram, or Discord | | Connection Retry | Auto-retry on network failure (configurable) |

Installation

git clone https://github.com/hopyky/update-plus.git ~/.openclaw/skills/update-plus

Add to PATH

mkdir -p ~/bin
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc
ln -sf ~/.openclaw/skills/update-plus/bin/update-plus ~/bin/update-plus

Configuration

Create ~/.openclaw/update-plus.json:

{
  "backup_dir": "~/.openclaw/backups",
  "backup_before_update": true,
  "backup_count": 5,
  "backup_paths": [
    {"path": "~/.openclaw", "label": "config", "exclude": ["backups", "logs"]},
    {"path": "~/.openclaw/workspace", "label": "workspace", "exclude": ["node_modules"]}
  ],
  "skills_dirs": [
    {"path": "~/.openclaw/skills", "label": "prod", "update": true}
  ],
  "notifications": {
    "enabled": false,
    "target": "+1234567890"
  },
  "connection_retries": 3,
  "connection_retry_delay": 60
}

Commands

| Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | update-plus check | Check for available updates | | update-plus backup | Create a full backup | | update-plus update | Update OpenClaw and all skills | | update-plus update --dry-run | Preview changes | | update-plus restore <file> | Restore from backup | | update-plus install-cron | Install automatic updates (daily 2 AM) | | update-plus uninstall-cron | Remove cron job |

Changelog

v4.0.3

• Check for updates BEFORE backup (skip backup if already up to date)
• No more wasted bandwidth/storage when nothing to update

v4.0.2

• Use curl instead of ping for connection check (more reliable)
• Works through firewalls and when Mac wakes from sleep

v4.0.1

• Added Homebrew path detection (/opt/homebrew/bin) for cron jobs
• Added ~/bin to cron PATH for local symlinks
• Updated example config with clearer workspace structure

v4.0.0

• OpenClaw only (removed moltbot/clawdbot legacy support)
• Simplified configuration and paths
• Config: ~/.openclaw/update-plus.json

v3.x

• Multi-bot support (openclaw, moltbot, clawdbot)
• Connection retry for cron jobs

Author

Created by hopyky

License

MIT