By Thilak February 10, 2007

Why and How to Backup Blogspot Blog

Google run Blogspot is in the news again, this time it’s for deleting blogs which fail to stick with their terms of service. Earlier this week Amit Agarwal reported that Blogger team had censored a post on CYFSWATCH Blog. In another incident, Blogger Team deleted iMessenger Blog on the account of spam. Some claim that Blogger has an automated system to review and delete/ban blogs which doesn’t agree with their TOS.

Well, this doesn’t mean that hosting your blog on Blogspot is a bad idea, but backing it up is equally essential. If you have upgraded your blog to the new version of blogger, then you’re lucky because Ionut has come up with an easy way to back up your blog which involves loading your blog in a “Search” URL which displays all your posts on a single page and then downloading all the photos in a single shot using DownThemAll Firefox extension. He also has a method to get all your posts in a XML Feed.

Read More: How to Backup Blogger Blog [Google Operating System]

For Wordpress: Automate Daily Backup

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Discussion

Comments for “Why and How to Backup Blogspot Blog”

  • After reading about such incidents I feel that it is indeed very important to keep a backup of your blog.You never know what may happen the next morning,it is a must to take precautions.

    I totally agree with you that instead of depending on blogger or any other hosting service for that case,it is better to switch to one's own domain.But if there is a financial constraint then there are loads of other options available to make a free backup of your blog(like the one's posted above).
    Good work Thilak.
  • Kartik: I partially agree with you, but what's the point in backing up the blogger blog. I mean to say.. If they ban your blog, everything is gone!

    Consider you have 1000+ posts and you have a backup as well. How are you going to restore the backup. Self hosted blogs are the best in that regard.

    It takes only few pennies to get .info domain, once you get a domain. Find any decent free host and host your blog with him. Just incase he throws you out.. you can always move to a different host. At the most, you'll have to keep your blog down for a day or two.. that's it.. you'll still have your months and months of hard work with you.
  • hmmm....right.But what if the free hosting service throws you out,wont you be in the same situation?
  • Karthik: No.. it won't be the same because if your host throws you out, you'll still have the domain name and database backup with you. You can go with any other host and set it up again, you won't loose traffic this way.. because you'll get the same permalink structure

    But If you get banned on Blogger, you can't get the same subdomain again.. you lose Pagerank, Traffic... virtually everything
  • Thanks for the info Thilak.Moving to your own domain seems much more safe.
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