Backing Up My Entire Weblog

In this day of hyper weblog activity, I finally buckled down to learning how to back up my entire weblog, dating back to my first post, in April of 2004. It turned out to be easy and quick, that is, sort of like downloading webshots pictures is quick -- if you have a broadband connection -- though you still have to do it month by month, and that is the same here. But still, even without broadband, backing up the weblog is much quicker than downloading all those webshots pictures -- though it seems to me that downloads on Wild Blue have sped up to as much as 6.1 megs a second, and provided that we can manage to keep it.

This site gives several ways to back up blogger weblogs. The one I picked involved, first, bringing up the Firefox browser, and next, through that, I had to download and install a Firefox add-on called Scrapbook. There's not much to that, and it installs all the utilities needed.

Then, to do the backups themselves, I have to bring up my weblog and then go to its archives and activate the month I want to back up. Then right click anywhere in the weblog window, and hit "Capture as..." or something like that.

I'm storing the backups in my E: drive. Right now it has 9.22 gigs of space. That should be enough for the whole weblog, as I have had several periods of several months each when I took "vacations."

The backups end up being stored slick as anything side by side, month by month, and clearly labeled. Clicking on one, even while offline, starts the browser and then that brings up that month or whatever that period was in the archive, looking exactly as it does online.