blogger has apparently been having some problems for the past two days. i couldn't get my post up on friday, then posted it on saturday but it timestamped as friday, and then last night i couldn't access blogspot blogs. hmmm. it also looks like jayne's blog is having "technical difficulties" - don't go there, though, she wants us to stay! away! - and i hope she hasn't lost stuff.
this makes me realize that i haven't really backed up any of the posts i have here - and i'm coming up on 200 posts, so it's becoming a not inconsequential amount of writing that i stand to lose. how do others deal with this? should i just print everything out (at the office, naturally) to have hard copies? copy everything to word and take up disk space? what's the standard industry practice here?
anyway, on to the totally unnecessary stuff. did you hear sheryl crow and lance armstrong broke up? i know, i really don't care either. however, look at the picture that goes along with this article. holy shit, she looks awful! and not just bad hair day awful, but like eating disorder awful! what happened there? and why have i heard nothing about the fact that sheryl crow suddenly resembles a drowned cat?
oh, right, because i don't read Us Weekly. shoot. well, i guess we all make compromises in life.
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This is one of the reasons I'm happy doing straight-up hand coding and FTP'ing my stuff to my domain host. They're never down. I don't have to deal with random glitches in somebody's software. I have absolute control over what I can do with my page. And since I write everthing in TextPad, I've got local copies on both my PC's at home.
It's really not that bad to backup your blog, Kate. The method blogger recommends is documented here
Essentially they're recommending that you temporarily change your settings to publish all of your posts to one file and then save that file. Then you change your settings back to the original ones. We can sit down one night and do this if you're not comfortable doing it.
There are other options, such as using a tool that will crawl your site and backup the whole thing in the format that it's in. This method is outlined here.
If you ever wanted to switch to another tool and host it yourself, other tools also are able to migrate all your data. But personally I wouldn't worry that Google/Blogger are going to lose all your data. It's not in their interest, and believe me they have backups.
So in short there are a lot of easy ways to backup your data or get it back. Life is good for Kate, no worries.
you bring up some valid points, and backing up is always a good idea.
I no longer use Blogger to publish my blogs, but I had had mostly positive experiences with them in the past.
Usually what I'd found is that things get messed up in the process of posting:
a) A post times out before the submit (thus one ought to copy to the clipboard just in case the post is lost)
b) Something goes wrong with the template (thus one has lost template settings but not the actual content of the blog)
But you are absolutely correct that no matter what a backup is prudent. Fortunately my blog is on WordPress and I can do a backup of my MySQL database with the click of a button :-).
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