Backups

Beach backs up your instance automatically. You can also take a manual backup anytime.

What this is

Beach takes automatic snapshots of your instance in the background so you can roll back if something goes wrong. You can also take a manual backup whenever you want — useful right before you make a risky change.

Backups are a Beach operation — you manage them from your instance page in Beach, not from the OpenClaw Control UI.

What's backed up

Your full OpenClaw setup:

  • Configuration (gateway settings, agent settings)
  • Sessions and conversation history
  • Memory (everything your agent remembers about you)
  • Channel connections (Telegram, Discord, etc.)
  • Provider keys (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.)
  • Skills

Essentially: everything that makes your agent your agent.

How automatic backups work

  • Beach takes a backup once a day in the background. You don't need to do anything.
  • Older backups are kept for a retention window, then cleaned up. Recent ones are always available.
  • Backups are stored in encrypted storage — only your instance can restore from them.

Taking a manual backup

Before doing anything risky (changing skills, swapping providers, big config changes), take a manual backup so you have a clean rollback point.

  1. Open your instance page in Beach.
  2. Find the backups section.
  3. Click the action to take a backup.
  4. Wait a minute or so — your manual backup will appear in the list with a timestamp.

Important: backups are not a download

Backups live inside Beach. You can restore them onto your Beach instance, but you can't download them as a file or export them somewhere else. There's no "export my data" option today.

If you ever want to leave Beach entirely, this matters — see What happens to my data if I cancel.

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