Green Kitchen: Craft Blog, etc.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

New Blogger

Well, I printed out a whole year's worth of posts and comments before I switched over because I know someone who had lost everything. Kind of feels neat to see the pile — looks like a lot of work. Anyone know of a way to back up a blog electronically?

Labels: blogging

20 Comments:

Green Kitchen said...: Ack! I'm doing a test comment and I still can't see it.; Wed Jan 31, 04:11:00 PM PST
Green Kitchen said...: Checking another computer and it works fine. Boy, I need a new computer. An outdated Mac, how behind the times can I be. ;); Wed Jan 31, 04:13:00 PM PST
futuregirl said...: Did it work OK? Smooth and easy like they promise?

You have your own domain where your blog is published, right? Before you switched, you could have made a copy of those folders on the server or downloaded them to your local computer. Now that you switched, Blogger probably over-wrote the old files with the new files.

But it doesn't look like you lost anything. :); Wed Jan 31, 05:33:00 PM PST
stephanie s said...: you two are speaking greek i say, GREEK.; Wed Jan 31, 05:48:00 PM PST
Beth said...: I've heard about turning your blog into a book!! I would love to turn mine into a hard cover just to have a print version. I looked into BookSmart, but that's all the farther I got. If anyone else knows more I'd love to hear about it!; Wed Jan 31, 06:03:00 PM PST
sarafoop said...: I've had a couple of friends do blog books through lulu.com and they were both really pleased with the results.sriqbayc; Wed Jan 31, 06:13:00 PM PST
Stacy said...: oooh. I'm contemplating my own move to the new format, but am fearful of a fatality. I'll be watching to see how things go for you. Feel like a guinea pig? :); Wed Jan 31, 06:50:00 PM PST
kristin said...: yeah, i'm with stephanie, what is this? greek? latin? japanese?; Wed Jan 31, 07:45:00 PM PST
Blaize said...: It's geek. Which is like Greek, I guess. I mean, I know a Greek geek. He is very strange. Wait! Wait! Maybe it's Esperanto, like in that movie with William Shatner; Wed Jan 31, 09:12:00 PM PST
Blaize said...: Oops. My attempt at html didn't work. So you'll have to cut and paste.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0059311/; Wed Jan 31, 09:15:00 PM PST
gracia said...: I'd love a hard copy of mine too... and I'd love to be able to offer some answers but, alas, I am in the dark.
see you, g; Wed Jan 31, 09:42:00 PM PST
Project Pink Suitcase said...: Booksmart software on blurb.com
I've heard that it is great!
The books are very good quality.
I haven't done it myself, but a friend at work did it with her sister's wedding photos. She showed it to me. It came out very cool.; Wed Jan 31, 10:57:00 PM PST
Krawuggl said...: All those technical things are frightening me so much, I think I will stay with the old Blogger version forever (or the day they delete me). And you are so lucky, you could talk about your problems in English and you understand it, while here the new beta-blogger-system is written in English, too, and I am German and so it is a big mistery for me at all.
Thank you so much for your nice words and the link to Kristins stitch-a-long! Her book is fantastic and I hope one day I have the patience to embroider even a table cloth (love her sun flowers), or a bag, or a blanket, or..........
Best wishes, Suzi; Thu Feb 01, 06:07:00 AM PST
Emily said...: Hey!
In Typepad help they tell you how to backup by exporting all of your posts; I am sure they have the same in blogger.
I imported all of my blogger posts from my first blog at blogger to typepad- I like the application better!
good luck!; Thu Feb 01, 11:49:00 AM PST
futuregirl said...: Wishful thinking, Emily. Blogger is crap, and there is no export (I'm 99% certain). It makes sense that a blog application would have an import, though, to encourage you to switch.

As for Esperanto ... my dear geeky father named my childhood dog Hundo, the Esperanto word for dog.; Thu Feb 01, 12:06:00 PM PST
Kristin said...: Oh, this happened to me too! I was making changes to Wordpress, and the fist thing they give you instructions to do is to backup, which I did. Then I made the changes and I did mess something up, so I went to do the backup to restore everything, and there was an error in the file! Now someone a little more technical than myself might have been able to recover something, but I was totally lost so I reinstalled and started from square one. Not a huge deal, but a bummer to lose the comments. I hope you learn some trick here. I have a feeling that we'll be seeing "blog recovery" and "blog backup" services being a new career!; Thu Feb 01, 12:38:00 PM PST
patrice said...: I LOST EIGHT WHOLE MONTHS and I'm still grieving so go very slow with whatever you are doing.; Thu Feb 01, 03:59:00 PM PST
ms. pea said...: I had no switch-up problems, except I still can't figure out how to get my graphic up in the header section. *sigh*; Thu Feb 01, 07:02:00 PM PST
Green Kitchen said...: Alice, you were right. All the files are on my server. I had some notion that there was only an index.html file there and that they had the rest on their server. Cool! I've got them. Thanks.; Sat Feb 03, 12:20:00 PM PST
Morris said...: I'm not worried about losing comments, turned them off a long time ago because I couldn't deal with the spam. I made the switch and I lost my whole blog! Well, not all the posts, but the main page that has been online since 2001 got dropped from Google. I don't know if it was because I started using the new Blogger labels, and they filled my site up with dupe content, or if it's someting worse. I wrote up a post about it last night Internet Publishing Fatigue and this morning, I noticed that by other blog is gone from Google cache, though still indexed. Be prepared for a bumpy ride.; Sun Feb 18, 07:02:00 AM PST