Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Do You Back Up Your Blog?!?

A friend of mine just started a new food blog. After being so busy over the summer, she finally had the time to work on it yesterday. Horrors of all horrors, she accidentally deleted it!! The whole thing. After waiting for a half hour to talk with WordPress tech support (can you imagine how that must have felt?!) they were able to get it back for her, but it sounded like that might not have been the case if she had waited until tomorrow after their servers had updated.

After celebrating with her, it dawned on me that I haven't backed-up the content of my blog. Ever. The thought of losing 450 posts and probably months of my life is quite overwhelming. Luckily, it's very easy to make a back-up if you use Blogger. And quick. We're talking minutes.
 
 
All you do is click on Settings in your left-hand sidebar, then Other.




At the top of the window click on Export Blog (NOT the one next door, "Delete Blog"!!) Here is where you can save the file to your hard drive. My next step will be to save the file to my external hard drive. THEN I will need to remember to save a new copy periodically. At least I have the last 2 1/2 years covered. Whew!

Thanks for looking!
-Kelly
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11 comments:

  1. Lisa EltonSeptember 23, 2014 at 7:14 AM

    THANKS for this info Kelly!!!

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  2. LynnSeptember 23, 2014 at 7:37 AM

    Oh I needed this reminder! I have never done this. Thanks Kelly.

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  3. HannelieSeptember 23, 2014 at 7:42 AM

    Thanks for sharing this Kelly!

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  4. Grá O'NeillSeptember 23, 2014 at 7:45 AM

    Good tip, and a great reminder :)

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  5. Happy DanceSeptember 23, 2014 at 8:45 AM

    Thanks Kelly! Since I'm running a dinosaur computer, I think I'll put it straight to the external drive. You're so sweet to remind us all to do this! Glad your friend got her blog back; I think I'd cry....And thanks, btw, for the lovely happy snail mail! You're the best! Bev

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  6. JoyceSeptember 23, 2014 at 11:41 AM

    Thanks for that info. I just did it. Now, if I ever need to find it on my hard drive and do something with it--that will be another story!

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  7. Anita in FranceSeptember 23, 2014 at 5:12 PM

    Thanks for the heads up, Kelly ... now, to find out how to do it in Wordpress! Anita :)

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  8. Tracey McNeelySeptember 23, 2014 at 7:24 PM

    Thanks so much for the info Kelly! Not only has this got me thinking I need to back up my blog, but also need to back up my computer. Hasn't been done since June!

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  9. Shona ChambersSeptember 24, 2014 at 5:15 AM

    Wow, your poor friend and her blog! I've never even thought about backing up my blog at all but the thought of losing it all made me follow your instructions straight away! Thank you so much for this info, just need to remember to do it every now and then....will add it to my never ending list of jobs!!

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  10. Loly BordaSeptember 24, 2014 at 11:26 PM

    Thanks so much for the tip Kelly! You are the best! So glad your friend could fix the problem.

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  11. KaraSeptember 26, 2014 at 4:20 PM

    Awesome info. Do you have any idea how much room it takes up on your computer? I have 1380 posts and have never done this....

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I absolutely love reading comments. Thanks so much for stopping by and taking the time to leave one! - Kelly