Recently I read a on-line article stressing the need to back up a blog, the reason being that the person writing the essay lost all old posts and comments on their blog. They disappeared into….who knows where, probably deleted.
I use “blogger” as the format for my blog. Blogger is a Google program. It is free and very easy to set up. A search on Google will bring it all up.
I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to back up a Google blog. As far as I can tell, there are multiple ways this can be done, none easy or fast. Well, actually the provision blogger now has is fast. All you do is on into the blogger’s dashboard and click on “edit posts” then “settings.” Then under blog tools, click on “export blog” and then there is an opportunity to put it in a file. Supposedly, the blog is backed up. Only there really is no way to check because it is unreadable computer writing. I guess I want to know for sure every post is there.
Then I experimented with another way suggested in a search of the subject. This was more or less a copy and paste situation. Painfully slow. Still, in the end, it might be the best. I would need to do a few each day.
Most of the time I use Windows Live Writer which is a great blogging tool and it automatically backs up each post. I’ve only known about this program for a few years, though.
There are third party programs available that might be just the ticket. With millions of bloggers out there, there must be an easy way save blog posts.