Verifiedon 2026.7.1
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Practical outcome
What this gives you
- Separate a symptom report from the evidence needed to change a running system
- Create a recovery baseline with a tested restore owner, recovery objective, and stop condition
- Score an upgrade for operational risk before selecting a maintenance window
- Run a sandbox upgrade, detect a regression, and verify a rollback from recorded evidence
- Produce an incident handoff that lets the next operator continue without retesting assumptions
Preflight
Before you start
- CLI Essentials and Operator Diagnostics
- Access to a non-production OpenClaw instance
Syllabus
Work through the map
- Build an evidence-first incident record75 min
- Set a recovery baseline and backup proof90 min
- Score an upgrade before the maintenance window75 min
- Run a sandbox upgrade rehearsal105 min
- Execute and prove a planned rollback105 min
- Write the incident handoff and game-day record90 min
- Final assessmentAfter coursework
Course details and supporting evidence
Publication scope
This course teaches an evidence-first recovery method for OpenClaw stable 2026.7.1, verified against upstream revision 2d2ddc43d0dcf71f31283d780f9fe9ff4cc04fe4. The live official documentation set was checked on 2026-08-01 UTC; the installed CLI and target release runbook always win when current pages and an older receipt disagree.
It is deliberately operational rather than a daily troubleshooting cheat sheet. The course sequence is:
- Evidence and boundaries — record impact and collect read-only signal before intervention.
- Recovery baseline — map version, config, secret references, SQLite state, backup, restore owner, RPO and RTO.
- Release risk review — turn release notes into affected boundaries, evidence gaps and a go-to-sandbox, defer or seek-review decision.
- Sandbox rehearsal — make one controlled change in an isolated target and compare layered acceptance checks.
- Rollback and state recovery — freeze, preserve, restore, validate and communicate without confusing a binary downgrade with data recovery.
- Handoff and game day — deliver a redacted recovery pack that preserves residual risk, ownership and the next review.
Use the primary receipts directly: OpenClaw v2026.7.1 release notes, Backup CLI, Doctor CLI, Update CLI, Gateway diagnostics, Restart recovery, and Database schemas. Resolve exact commands against the installed OpenClaw binary before acting.
All labs use non-production instances and synthetic credentials. Never paste real tokens, customer payloads, private hostnames, or raw transcripts into a learner artifact. This published course is operationally bounded: an independent technical review approved the release-specific commands, receipt bindings, asset ownership, and structured capstone quiz. The game-day evidence remains synthetic and does not authorize production changes.
The committed 2026.7.1 isolated recovery game-day receipt is the durable operational evidence for the bounded sandbox claims in this course. It proves package integrity, backup verification, a controlled mutation, archive-based recovery, and post-restore health checks; it also records that the pinned CLI exposes no backup restore subcommand. Restore is therefore manual for OpenClaw 2026.7.1: use the verified archive manifest and controlled staging/quarantine procedure rather than claiming an unavailable CLI command, and never generalise the fallback procedure to production.