Backup Your Precious Blog

You spend hours creating, updating, promoting, publishing, maintaining your blog, you probably not going to enjoy recreating it again. But as always, shit happen...

• Maybe you hit the "Delete This Blog" button, and realised it just a microsecond AFTER you hit the Yes button. Too late. Now you have to wait for Blogger to restore it.


• Maybe you just tweaked the template a little too much, and can't get it right again. Did you forgot to download your template?
  


• Maybe you're plagued by the problem of the week, blog corruption / hi-jacking.

If you can, by a miracle, get Blogger to restore your blog. One solution for this need is HTTrack, which is a free and very easy product to use. Note this caution when using HTTrack. And note this additional advice - back up your templates separately.

• Get HTTrack (free).

• Install it. You will want to close all open applications, and prepare to reboot afterwards.

• Run it. The first time, you will have to identify your blog by URL and by Title, and identify the HTTrack Mirror Base Path. The mirroring itself is easy.

• Setup a shortcut to the mirrored code. Now you can view your blog locally, whether or not your computer is online.

• Whenever you make changes, rerun HTTrack. Changed blogs remirror quickly.

• Its free and you can backup any website.