OpenClaw Backup & Disaster Recovery on Hetzner: RPO/RTO, Restore Drills, and Practical Failover for SetupClaw

Abstract: Most OpenClaw outages are survivable if recovery is planned before failure, but painful when backup and restore steps only exist as assumptions. This guide shows a practical SetupClaw disaster recovery baseline for Hetzner: define RPO and RTO in plain terms, back up the right data layers, test restores monthly, and keep a documented failover path so Telegram control, cron jobs, and memory continuity return quickly. OpenClaw Backup & Disaster Recovery on Hetzner: RPO/RTO, Restore Drills, and Practical Failover for SetupClaw A lot of teams say they have backups. Fewer teams can answer one harder question: how long until we are actually back online after a failure? That gap is where most “small” incidents become expensive. A VPS crashes, disk state gets corrupted, or a bad config change blocks access. The data may exist somewhere, but without a tested recovery sequence, downtime stretches and trust drops. Start with two decisions most teams skip Before choosing tools, define two