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Saving you blogs

I backup everything. I have copies of pretty much everything from my computer on one other computer (sometimes two) and on an external USB hard drive. I have always made backups. But I don't have my own copies of my blog entries. That point hit me today when I found out that weblogs.com shut off all the free blogs they had. They are continuing with the paid blogs.
Now I don't expect theSpoke to go anywhere. And I know the people who run the hosting site and expect they are doing good backups. But one never knows. Plus it recently occurred to me that it would be nice to have a way to search through old blogs offline.
So I want to backup my blog. I am thinking of visiting each day's entry and copying it to OneNote. This will give me a good organization as well as easy search. I wish I could think of a way to do a backup automatically though. Going forward anything will be easy once I am in the habit. It's getting started that is a problem.
So do you backup your blog? Why or why not? And if you do, how do you do it?

posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:13 PM by AlfredTwo

# @ Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:00 PM

just an idea, you can create a program that will parse the xml rssfeed of your blog and save it on your pc... have no idea how to save the comments and trackback info though.

geraldson

# @ Wednesday, June 16, 2004 2:56 PM

I wish theSpoke would allow users to customize the RSS feed a bit... I'd like to make it go ALL the way back to Day 1. Then we could write a program to archive our blogs. :)

punzki

# @ Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:15 PM

I've posted a request on the support forum for a way that spoke entries could be off-lined. My idea was so that students could use blogging as a way of tracking project work if they could pull the blog off. It would be a useful appendix to a project writeup.

RobMiles

# @ Wednesday, June 16, 2004 4:26 PM

As i blogged about yesterday, http://www.thespoke.net/BlogReader/SingleEntry.aspx?ID=23179, Ive written a blog viewer for pocket pc. It would be really easy to save your blogs to your desktop. Im also annoyed that theres no way to get at the comments, kind of makes my viewer useless.

lukesmith

# @ Wednesday, June 16, 2004 7:24 PM

I don't backup mine yet, but I was hoping the extensions Morris mentioned a couple of months back would allow me to backup my blog (or post via a windows client via web services too). You could write a little program that goes in and checks the RSS feed every X minutes / hours /etc and then figures out which posts it hasn't seen and backs them up to a file...wouldn't be a bad little deal there...hmmm..well anyway, that would be one way to roll your own blog backer-upper

AdamMB

# @ Wednesday, June 16, 2004 7:25 PM

ok, should have read the comments first sine geraldson already pointed out what I just mentioned in my last post...oops :)

AdamMB

# @ Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:03 AM

Thanks for the comment in my blog! I am starting in the world of blogs, then I don't have many things to backup but I agree that it is a good idea to do it. Who has important things on it needs to do it because we never know when it will be useful Seeya

Senac_cle

# @ Thursday, June 17, 2004 4:08 AM

I agree with everyone..RSS Feeds will make backing up the blog easier. You can pretty much back up anything you want to backup! Good luck AlfredTwo!

she_lim

# @ Thursday, June 17, 2004 1:15 PM

you can make a spider or crawler to crawl on your blog. old school and cumbersome but it works. it can even get the comments.

geraldson

# @ Friday, June 18, 2004 5:47 PM

You could always paste the blog entries into OneNote.

JamesDotNET

# @ Tuesday, June 22, 2004 8:03 AM

Will you back up your OneNote entries? I'm concerned about that as well.

Howard


 
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