Blogging is massive these days. Most of bloggers (including me) started blogging endeavors with Blogger – Blogspot free blogging service.There is no comprehensive official method to backup a Blogger Blog. What happens just in case it is deleted and needs to restored…Don’t worry there are number of tricks and utilities that can help blogger to bakckup the Blog.
1. Blogger Backup Utility - It is a simple utility that help bloggers to make backup of blog to local disk. Check out screenshots complete view of utility in action
2. BlogBackupr -It is a web based blog backup service. It allows blogger to backup Blog. It can backup articles, user comments and blog categories of your blog. Ability to backup images will be added soon.
3. HTTrack Website Copier - Allows blogger to create a mirror copy of the blog on computer. It builds recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to computer.
4. BlogBackupOnline –It is web based service that allows blogger to backup your blog. Blogger can restore blog content anytime using the backup created. It is also very useful in case you are shifting from one blogging service to another. For example switching from blogger to wordpress.
5. Official Blogger backup steps - Blogger does not have an export or download function. Blogger can use these instructions to create a single file with all your posts which you may publish and then copy to blogger own computer for use as desired.
6. Manual way to backup posts & Images - For new blogger. Save and copy all textual content using standard URL: http://name.blogspot.com/search?max-results=N (where name is blogname and N is number of posts you want to backup). To backup images on your blog use FireFox addon ‘DownThemAll’.
7. Using Blogger Email feature - Enable send post by email feature in your Blogger Dashboard. As soon as blogger publish a new post you will receive whole post in your inbox. Blogger will have blog posts archived in your inbox. Under ‘Settings’ click on ‘Email’ option. Enter your email address in ‘Blogsend address’.
8. BlogCollector – Blogger can make backup of blog on computer. Blogger can publish that backup in PDF or MS Word format.
9. Good-old Copy Paste Method - Time consuming but very simple way of backing up blogger blog. Finish writing blog post, copy the post content while in HTML mode and paste in notepad file on computer. Name the notepad file with the title of post for easy searching.
10. Start thinking, innovating - Well, above were 9 ways to backup blogger blog. Do you know any method that can be 10th method to backup blogger blog? If YES, please share by adding a comment. Anyway, happy blogging!
