blog backup public service announcement

My sister, one of the reasons I’m a blogger today, used to keep her site on Diary-X. That is, until a few weeks ago when Diary-X had a catastrophic hard drive failure and went kaput. They had never backed anything up. My sister lost 3 years of entries. It’s all too horrible.

So the moral is, go run a backup. You never know what might happen.

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7 Comments on “blog backup public service announcement”

  1. joy madison Says:

    I’m telling my husband about this tomorrow! I am approaching my 3 year anniversary….we have our own sites, but they are on a server somewhere! ACK!

  2. Amelia Says:

    oh ma gawd!!

  3. mereteveian Says:

    And when you’ve done the backup because you’d like to keep your written words, why not look into making a book from it?

    http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/10/archiving_coyot.html
    http://www.blogbinders.com/
    http://www.lulu.com/

  4. Anita Says:

    Something I’ve been wanting to do… but how does one back-up Blogspot????

  5. mod*mom Says:

    how can i back up a blog?

    btw i’m having a “hat design contest”
    + the deadline is march 31.
    i’ll post pictures with links back to peoples sites.
    the winner will be featured on design*sponge
    mod*mom

  6. Nicole Says:

    Eeek. That’s scary and so sad for your sis. Thanks for the heads up!

  7. Carol Says:

    I have a stupid question…how to back up a blog? Thank you.

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