5 Ways How To Back Up A Blogger Blog

Backing up your blog contents is very very important. Why? Because your Blogger/blogspot blog can be running smoothly today and yet it also can all of a sudden disappear, without warning. It happened before and will happen again in the future. Playing by the rules doesn’t make you immune either, because mistake happens too. You are at the mercy of Blogger, so be prepared.

If you haven’t yet backed up for your blog, then do it now.

Below are 5 ways to backup you Blogger blog:

1. Using feed

First of all you need to ensure the feed contains complete post contents (including images). Go to Dashboard > Settings > Site Feed, in Allow Blog Feeds dropdown, select FULL.

• Posts -Go to this URL and save the page in your PC: 
  

  http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=500

• Comments -Go to this URL and save the page in your PC: 
  

  http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?max-results=200

A posts feed retrieves only up to 500 posts and a comments feed up to 200 comments. If your blog has more posts or comments, you need to get more than one feed. Add an appropriate start-index query in the URL to specify the starting point of each subsequent feeds, like this:

http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?start-index=501&max-results=500

The same applies to comments feed.

If you redirect your blog feed, then append &redirect=false at the end of the URL.

2. Using export function

• Posts  and comments – go to Dashboard > Settings > Basic > Blog Tools > Export Blog. The blog posts and comments (in XML file) will be downloaded to your PC.
• (To import it, go to the same page: Dashboard > Settings > Basic > Blog Tools, then click Import Blog.)

3. Using Email feature

Using the method below lets Blogger send you an email every time you publish a post or receive a comment.

• Posts –Dashboard > Settings > Email & Mobile. Under Email Notifications, enter your email address in the Blogsend Address textbox.
• Comments –Dashboard > Settings > Comments, enter your email address in the Comment Notification Email textbox .

4. Using Windows Live Writer

If you use Window Live Writer as your post editor, a copy of your post is kept in your PC.

• Posts -You can find the posts in My Documents\My Weblog Posts\Recent Posts.
• Comments -Not applicable.

5. Using Httrack

HTTrack downloads all files into your PC and creates a mirror copy of your blog offline. You can browse the blog as if you were online, posts, comments and all.

HTTrack is available for Windows and Linux. Download it here. Once downloaded use this this instructions to install it in your PC.

Enjoy!