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Your precious blog world . A virtual world forever threatened by computer crashes, viruses worse than Ebola and fickle servers.
Your carefully worded blogs, your painstakingly gained comments, your bevy of ever-increasing friends/followers. All wiped out in a moment.
It is the virtual equivalent of Tsunami, Hiroshima and Katrina rolled into one!
Worry not. Here’s how to backup your blog world.
My favorite and easy routes are :
1. XML : WordPress bloggers can utilize this.
Cost: Nil. Free.
Saves: Blog posts, comments, categories,tags, pages.
Not saved: Follower blog urls.
Space taken: My 13.2 MB blog (till date) got condensed to 1.3 MB.
How to backup?: Go to your blog —-Click on ‘Dashboard’—click on ‘Tools’—Choose ’Export’—Select ‘All content’ if you wish to save comments plus blog posts—Click ‘Download Export File’ —and choose desired location of XML folder. Simple!
2. Windows LiveWriter : You can download this software App free.
Cost: Free download
Important: Link it (one-time process) to your blog name and password.
Saves: Only blog posts with images, if any.
Not saved: Comments, Follower blog urls
Plus points: a] Works offline. So you can basically write an entire blog post without internet connection. Just like jotting down ideas on paper as rough notes. Edit it. Save draft. Re-edit. Add tags and category.
When you are ready to publish, open it from your ‘Drafts’ sidebar and click ‘Publish’ (Now you need that internet connection, buddy!) . b] You can chose to set publish date as per your wish. Pen down an idea whenever it strikes you, and schedule its publication for later.
c] Works as Editor. So you can choose font, bold, italics, underline, bullets, alignment. You can add web links, images, tables, video. You can do spell check and word count.
3. Saving urls for ‘People you follow’ and ‘People who follow you.’: Well, unfortunately, I resort to manual ‘Copy-Paste’ of individual blog urls. I keep a separate list for each of the above and also a sub-list for Google Bloggers vs WordPress bloggers.
Anyone who knows a better technique for all of the above? Please feel free to throw light, toss in your advice, contribute your expertise. C’mon…
Impractical Dreamer 
Thanks for the useful and important information.
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Hi, hope it works as well for you as it does for me. Feels good to have a backup. It’s like having a duplicate key, a duplicate bank account. Safe and snug.
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for a novice like,its all so cumbersome..
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Hello Renu. I tried to simplify it as much as possible. It may look like to many steps, but really, it is just 5 clicks away!
Try it once. I am no techo-whiz either. Just that I realized my blog posts are living in a virtual space and it can vanish Poof!
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Extremely informative
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Hope you can utilize it. We all live in Neverland, unaware that all our hard work can vanish in the snap of a moment. Thank you for visiting.
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Really a nice post many don’t know about it 🙂
Thanks for sharing
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Thank you. Hope it helps new bloggers. In the initial phases, one is so wrapped up in designing and prettifying the blog that we forget the lurking dangers.
What does your Twitter name mean? Any special significance?
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Great tips Dr. Sweety Shinde, actually back up of a blog is a thing which always remain in our mind, but unfortunately we don’t understand the value of its unless and until some mis-happening happens with our blog.
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Hope the post was useful and simple enough to put into practice! Yes, no point in panicking after the whole blog gets wiped out. Better safe than sorry.
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