Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
As the saying goes, "raising a good shrimp (OpenClaw) is not easy." Building, configuring, debugging, and accumulating state until an OpenClaw environment reaches that perfect, highly capable state takes a massive amount of time and effort.
The main pain point is: once we've finally raised this "premium shrimp," if we need to migrate it to a machine with better GPUs, scale it up across multiple nodes, or share this well-tuned environment with teammates, there is no safe, efficient, and officially recommended way to do so. Reconfiguring from scratch is not only incredibly time-consuming but also risks losing accumulated historical states, memory, and fine-tuned settings.
Describe the solution you'd like
I hope the official team can provide a built-in "One-Click Migration" (or Environment Cloning) utility or script.
Specific ideas include:
- One-click Export (
export): A command like claw export --all that bundles core configuration files, accumulated memory/state files, local databases, and specific environment dependencies into a single portable archive (e.g., .claw_backup or .tar.gz).
- One-click Import (
import): On a new machine with a base installation, a command like claw import my_shrimp.tar.gz that automatically extracts the archive, overwrites configurations, restores states, and pulls any missing dependencies.
- Environment Validation: Automatically run a lightweight self-check post-import to ensure the new machine's hardware/software stack (e.g., CUDA versions, Python dependencies) meets the "survival requirements" of this specific OpenClaw instance.
Describe alternatives you've considered
- Manual Copy (
scp or rsync): Directly copying the entire project folder over. Drawbacks: It's very easy to miss hidden environment variables or global dependency caches. Furthermore, path-related errors frequently occur if the OS or directory structures differ between the old and new machines.
- Docker Repackaging (
docker commit): Committing the current container into a new image and pushing it to a registry. Drawbacks: While technically feasible, this is too heavy-handed for users who merely want to migrate configurations and lightweight states, and it is completely unhelpful for bare-metal/non-containerized deployments.
Additional context
A "One-Click Migration" feature would drastically lower the barrier for team collaboration using OpenClaw. More importantly, it would encourage community members to share their "premium shrimps" (highly optimized, pre-trained agent configurations) with each other, further enriching the OpenClaw ecosystem. Hope the team considers this feature, thank you!
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
As the saying goes, "raising a good shrimp (OpenClaw) is not easy." Building, configuring, debugging, and accumulating state until an OpenClaw environment reaches that perfect, highly capable state takes a massive amount of time and effort.
The main pain point is: once we've finally raised this "premium shrimp," if we need to migrate it to a machine with better GPUs, scale it up across multiple nodes, or share this well-tuned environment with teammates, there is no safe, efficient, and officially recommended way to do so. Reconfiguring from scratch is not only incredibly time-consuming but also risks losing accumulated historical states, memory, and fine-tuned settings.
Describe the solution you'd like
I hope the official team can provide a built-in "One-Click Migration" (or Environment Cloning) utility or script.
Specific ideas include:
export): A command likeclaw export --allthat bundles core configuration files, accumulated memory/state files, local databases, and specific environment dependencies into a single portable archive (e.g.,.claw_backupor.tar.gz).import): On a new machine with a base installation, a command likeclaw import my_shrimp.tar.gzthat automatically extracts the archive, overwrites configurations, restores states, and pulls any missing dependencies.Describe alternatives you've considered
scporrsync): Directly copying the entire project folder over. Drawbacks: It's very easy to miss hidden environment variables or global dependency caches. Furthermore, path-related errors frequently occur if the OS or directory structures differ between the old and new machines.docker commit): Committing the current container into a new image and pushing it to a registry. Drawbacks: While technically feasible, this is too heavy-handed for users who merely want to migrate configurations and lightweight states, and it is completely unhelpful for bare-metal/non-containerized deployments.Additional context
A "One-Click Migration" feature would drastically lower the barrier for team collaboration using OpenClaw. More importantly, it would encourage community members to share their "premium shrimps" (highly optimized, pre-trained agent configurations) with each other, further enriching the OpenClaw ecosystem. Hope the team considers this feature, thank you!