Back Up The Files Of Your Blog

Sites Info and Tutorial, Wednesday, 15 July 2009

Maybe this writing is not too useful for those who have known about this. But I hope that it will be very useful for those who have known it.

The proverb says, “Preventive is better than curative”. I say this proverb because I remind you that the disaster of losing the files of your blog is never predictable. Maybe today your blog is still safe and secure, but you will never know tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Maybe your blog disappears due to deletion by Blogger.com, or your blog is hacked, and many other possibilities that can happen to your blog. Therefore, backing up your files is very important.

The function of this blog backup is not only for safety and for security, but also for moving that blog to other machines such as from blogspot to wordpress, and more.

For those who intend to backup the blog data, can do two ways. The first way is by backing up with the tool from the blogger.com or using backup tool from bloggerbackup.codeplex.com

Below is the way to backup by using blog tool of blogger.com

1. Login to blogger.com with your ID

2. On the Dashboard click Settings, make sure you are in the Basic tab. On the Blog Tools, click Export blog to start backing up your blog data/files

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3. Click the button Download Blog to do backup. If the dialog appear, click OK to store your backup files to your computer.

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4. Done

To backup data by using the tool from bloggerbackup, you can follow these steps:

1. Please visit the site of bloggerbackup here to download the backup tool.
2. Install the tool on your computer, and run it after finish.

3. On the window appears, on Available blogs click the dropdown menu to enter the blog. Click [Add/Update/Remove Blogs].
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4. Fill in your blogger ID to Blogger user ID: including the password on Blogger password:, then click the button Log into Blogger and Get Blogs. When the blogs have appeared, click OK.
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5. If your blogs have been successfully installed, please select the blog you want to backup.
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6. On the window appears at Save post to folder determine the file location. If you want to backup with the available comments, at Save Comments? Mark the small button. The last, click the button Backup Posts, wait until the process of backing up done.
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7. Done

Save your blog as soon as possible before you regret losing your blog data. Happy trying.