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May 22, 2007
Blog Backup
A major concern of mine, as LiB is now 3 1/2 years old, is archiving or preserving my blog's content. What if Movable Type went belly up? Where would my blog go?
A tool to look in to, if you're in a similar situation for your personal or library blog, is BlogBackupOnline. Just register your blog to your account and then your blog gets backed up daily. And yes, this is a free service. You do have a limit of 50MB, but other than that it's free and clear--no software to install, no code to add to your site.
Does anyone else know of similar tools that they would recommend?
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Take a look at http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/02/02/turning-your-blog-into-a-book/
Which provides you with a few ideas on ways to go about it. Or http://www.backupmyblog.com/
I have not tried any of these suggestions myself however.
Posted by: Phil Bradley | May24, 2007
I second the Wordpress kudos. In addition to easy database backup, the newest version also has the option to export all posts, comments, categories, etc into a downloadable xml file. So even if the absolute worst happened and your database went kerflooey, you could reinstall Wordpress and import your entire blog contents. (Sure, you'd lose any customizations you'd made to your style sheet and templates, but you'd still have the content, which is the important part.)
Posted by: Aaron | May23, 2007
Since you're using Movable Type this won't help you specifically, but I'm using a nice plugin for my WordPress blog, WordPress Database Backup.
With it, you can do one-time backups on your own, or schedule the backup to run authomatically (hourly, daily or weekly).
Posted by: Jonathan | May23, 2007
