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How to backup your Blogger blog entries
Given how Google doesn't have a perfect record of you know, not accidentally disabling accounts, you might be looking for a good way to backup data you've got stored on Google servers. For Gmail, the simplest method is probably to save your messages to Outlook or Thunderbird.But backing up your blog using Google's Blogger isn't quite as straightforward. A few months ago we told you about BlogBackupOnline, a service that lets you make backup copies of blogs posts, whether you're using Blogger, Wordpress, TypePad or most other popular services.
If you're using Blogger, and you'd rather save your data on your desktop, you might want to check out Blogger Backup. There's no support for saving images, (something BlogBackupOnline recently added), but Blogger Backup is extraordinarily quick and easy to use.
On your first run, you can save all of your posts, or just your last 10, 25, 50, or 100. You can also set it to perform full backups or incremental backups, and to save each post as a separate file or every post as one XML file. Future releases will let you save posts as HTML or PDF files.
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Digger said 9:10PM on 6-22-2007
Dugg!
http://digg.com/security/How_to_backup_your_Blogger_blog_entries
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thammerlund said 12:36AM on 6-23-2007
Sounds great. Too bad you need .NET to do it.
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Tom said 11:46PM on 6-22-2007
Sounds great. Too bad you need .NET to do it.
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Mark said 9:03AM on 6-23-2007
Wouldn't it just be easier to have Blogger automatically email each new blog post to you? You can easily configure this in Blogger's settings.
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Bryan Price said 9:04AM on 6-23-2007
I'm not exactly sure how BlogBackupOnline works, because I've not seen a real report that tells me exactly how many entries it's backed up, and how much space I'm using is pretty pitiful compared to how much gets shoved around when I republish. Which is another issue (why, and what I might be able to do to mitigate it).
I'm going to check this one out.
And #4, Mark, if you've been blogging since 2003 (a Noob I realize), then turning on email for each post NOW isn't going to do much. But I have done that, sending the email to... my gmail account. :X
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Benjamin said 11:45AM on 6-23-2007
Do you know how to save Wordpress blogs?
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johnhee said 7:35PM on 6-23-2007
try http://www.httrack.com/
A FREE website copier
Works happily with blogger.com sites (and handles pixs)
Nice and easy to use and fast
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Chess Thinker said 9:29AM on 6-25-2007
This is for Benjamin and other WordPress users. In Wordpress, you can back up your blog by EXPORTING it to your computer as an XML file. LOGIN as Administrator, MANAGE, EXPORT, ALL (seems like your option is to export all or limit by user), DOWNLOAD EXPORT FILE (You will have to choose where you want it to be kept.) Hope this helps. Drop me a note at http://chessthinking.com and let me know if it worked or if you have other questions.
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