🔄 Clawdbot Update Plus

🔄 Clawdbot Update Plus

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

Quick Start

# Check for available updates
clawdbot-update-plus check

# Create a full backup
clawdbot-update-plus backup

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

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

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

Features

Installation

# Via ClawdHub
clawdhub install clawdbot-update-plus --dir ~/​.clawdbot/​skills

# Or clone manually
git clone https://github.com/​hopyky/​clawdbot-update-plus.git ~/​.clawdbot/​skills/​clawdbot-update-plus

Add to PATH

Create a symlink to use the command globally:

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

Dependencies

Configuration

Create ~/​.clawdbot/​clawdbot-update.json:

{
  "backup_dir": "~/​.clawdbot/​backups",
  "backup_before_update": true,
  "backup_count": 5,
  "backup_paths": [
    {"path": "~/​.clawdbot", "label": "config", "exclude": ["backups", "logs", "media", "*.lock"]},
    {"path": "~/​clawd", "label": "workspace", "exclude": ["node_modules", ".venv"]}
  ],
  "skills_dirs": [
    {"path": "~/​.clawdbot/​skills", "label": "prod", "update": true},
    {"path": "~/​clawd/​skills", "label": "dev", "update": false}
  ],
  "remote_storage": {
    "enabled": false,
    "rclone_remote": "gdrive:",
    "path": "clawdbot-backups"
  },
  "encryption": {
    "enabled": false,
    "gpg_recipient": "[email protected]"
  },
  "notifications": {
    "enabled": false,
    "target": "+1234567890",
    "on_success": true,
    "on_error": true
  }
}

Backup Paths

Configure what to backup with backup_paths:

Recommended Setup

"backup_paths": [
  {"path": "~/​.clawdbot", "label": "config", "exclude": ["backups", "logs", "media"]},
  {"path": "~/​clawd", "label": "workspace", "exclude": ["node_modules", ".venv"]}
]

Skills Update

Configure which skills to update with skills_dirs:

Recommended Setup

"skills_dirs": [
  {"path": "~/​.clawdbot/​skills", "label": "prod", "update": true},
  {"path": "~/​clawd/​skills", "label": "dev", "update": false}
]

• Prod: Auto-update from ClawdHub/​GitHub
• Dev: Manual only (protects your work)

Commands

backup — Create Full Backup

clawdbot-update-plus backup

list-backups — List Available Backups

clawdbot-update-plus list-backups

update — Update Everything

# Standard update (with automatic backup)
clawdbot-update-plus update

# Preview changes only
clawdbot-update-plus update --dry-run

# Skip backup
clawdbot-update-plus update --no-backup

# Force continue even if backup fails
clawdbot-update-plus update --force

restore — Restore from Backup

# Restore everything
clawdbot-update-plus restore backup.tar.gz

# Restore only config
clawdbot-update-plus restore backup.tar.gz config

# Restore only workspace
clawdbot-update-plus restore backup.tar.gz workspace

# Force (no confirmation)
clawdbot-update-plus restore backup.tar.gz --force

check — Check for Updates

clawdbot-update-plus check

install-cron — Automatic Updates

# Install daily at 2 AM
clawdbot-update-plus install-cron

# Custom schedule
clawdbot-update-plus install-cron "0 3 * * 0"  # Sundays at 3 AM

# Remove
clawdbot-update-plus uninstall-cron

Notifications

Get notified when updates complete or fail:

"notifications": {
  "enabled": true,
  "target": "+1234567890",
  "on_success": true,
  "on_error": true
}

Target format determines channel:

• +1234567890 → WhatsApp
• @username → Telegram
• channel:123 → Discord

Cloud Storage

Setup rclone

# Install
brew install rclone  # macOS
curl https://rclone.org/​install.sh | sudo bash  # Linux

# Configure
rclone config

Enable in Config

"remote_storage": {
  "enabled": true,
  "rclone_remote": "gdrive:",
  "path": "clawdbot-backups"
}

Encrypted Backups

"encryption": {
  "enabled": true,
  "gpg_recipient": "[email protected]"
}

Logs

All operations are logged to ~/​.clawdbot/​backups/​update.log:

[2026-01-25 20:22:48] === Update started 2026-01-25 20:22:48 ===
[2026-01-25 20:23:39] Creating backup...
[2026-01-25 20:23:39] Backup created: clawdbot-update-2026-01-25-20:22:48.tar.gz (625M)
[2026-01-25 20:23:39] Clawdbot current version: 2026.1.22
[2026-01-25 20:23:41] Starting skills update
[2026-01-25 20:23:41] === Update completed 2026-01-25 20:23:41 ===
[2026-01-25 20:23:43] Notification sent to +1234567890 via whatsapp

Log retention: Logs older than 30 days are automatically deleted.

Retention Policy

Architecture (v2.0)

bin/
├── clawdbot-update-plus     # Main entry point
└── lib/
    ├── utils.sh             # Logging, helpers
    ├── config.sh            # Configuration
    ├── backup.sh            # Backup functions
    ├── restore.sh           # Restore functions
    ├── update.sh            # Update functions
    ├── notify.sh            # Notifications
    └── cron.sh              # Cron management

Changelog

v2.0.0

• Complete architecture rewrite
• Modular design (7 separate modules)
• Cleaner codebase (~150 lines per module vs 1000+ monolith)
• Better error handling
• Improved restore with label support
• Auto-detect notification channel from target format
• Fixed --no-backup flag being ignored
• Detailed logging to file with auto-purge
• Backup retention policy (local + remote)

v1.7.0

• Smart restore with label support
• Auto-detect backup format

v1.6.0

• Added backup_paths for full environment backup
• Separated backup logic from update logic

v1.5.0

• Multi-directory support (skills_dirs)

v1.4.0

• Notifications via Clawdbot messaging

v1.3.0

• Added check, diff-backups, install-cron commands

Author

Created by hopyky

License

MIT