Backup

Synopsis: The dirty little secret about free blogs and websites is that its not easy to backup the whole works. Images are the primary gap, but there are other little problems too. Images are most likely not backed up when you “export” or backup your free blog or website.

Blogs and websites where you pay for and have access to the web server do allow you to back up the whole enchilada, but it’s a bit tricky.

Responses:

So what’s a person to do? If you’re not vitally concerned with permanence, and just want to produce a stream related to current interests and events, don’t worry about it. The likely-hood that you’ll loose your blog or website is small. And you’re primarily interested in the stream, which you can easily reestablish.

If you want permanence, you’ll need to pay for it. For example, by providing your own domain and hosting, WordPress blogging software allows you to back up your blog fully. It’s not easy though. You need to back up the underlying database, back up up the WordPress structure and back up all the files located on your server that are related to your blog.

Finally, even if you manage to back up everything, there’s still the question or re-constructing it just right.

Illustrations:

• http://www.codeplex.com/bloggerbackup
• http://www.tothepc.com/archives/10-ways-to-backup-restore-your-blogger-blog/
• http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-to-backup-blogger-blog.html
• http://www.buildabetterblog.com/2007/07/backup-your-typ.html