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Aug 02 2012

Writer’s Workshop: Keeping A Backup Copy

 Writers Workshop: Keeping A Backup Copy

Blogging has been one of my passions since I started my first blog online back in 2004 when Monkey Boy was born.   It has been almost 9 years since I have been actively blogging. A lot has changed since I started off as a blogging newbie.

Back then I was blogging on the blogger platform before switching over to WordPress.com and now on this self hosted WordPress blog.

I have learned a lot since I made my 1st step into the world of blogging. I know now the importance of having a back up for the blog and also backups for the template and other in both my hard drive and also a copy stored in Dropbox. It would certainly save me the trouble of redoing everything from scratch when I had to move my blog from one server to another when I had to change hosting.

Nowadays everything is online and not in hard copy. It pays to be prudent and have a few back up copies in different places so in the case that the blog is attacked by virus or gets hacked.  I triple save everything now. – Hard disk, dropbox and via e-mail. I also do a photo book yearly so that we have a hard copy to look back on when the kids grow up

 

Do you keep a backup copy of your blog?

Are your copies online or offline?

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  1. Ginger

    Great idea!! Thanks for the tip!

  2. Modern Gypsy

    I’ve never bothered to find out about backing up my blog, but maybe I should. Will look up how to backup my wordpress.com blog. Thanks for the tip. :-)

  3. Heather

    That photo is so cute!! Great post!

  4. Maggie S.

    You are so right. This is what I need to work on.

  5. Carol

    Great post ~ very true ~ i do back up my blog and older one is offline ~ need to do more of that ~ wondering how you like the self hosting WordPress blogging?thanks for coming by ~ namaste, (A Creative Harbor) on Blogger

  6. Michelle

    This is definitely a good idea. I just started blogging but it’s better to save all documents right now before I’ll regret for something like this to happen to me. Thanks Dominique! :-)

  7. Susan Mystery

    I have blogging since 2004 as well. I started out on live journal then Yahoo 360 then Multiply and finally landed here. I have a thumb drive dedicated to my blog as well as on my hard drive. I have recently be able to print all my entries and placed them in a binder and find it enjoyable to read back once in a while to see what I was doing and how I was feeling.

  8. Sue

    Good advice. The only back-up I have is the blog books I publish. Better than nothing, but wouldn’t help me recreate the blog if it were lost.

    =)

  9. sister sister

    I can see this is an excellent tip since a few days ago I just spent all day writing a post only to not be able to find it when i wanted to publish it the next morning. Lost in Cyberspace never to be found again. so frustrating

    good tip.
    hi from mk’s

  10. emily

    I really should, but I haven’t done that yet.

  11. lissa

    oh, I would like to triple-backup my stuff but I think I would forget to do so. anyway, I think the server that your blog is hosted on is already being backup so I think in a way, you’re are backing up 4x instead of 3.
    have a great day.

  12. Melanie

    Great tip! I really need to backup all my work so I don’t have to redo it if anything happens.

  13. Rocky Mountain Woman

    Yikes! I need to do a backup…

  14. JamericanSpice

    Ahh he is so cute!

    1. I don’t but I should. Well I do back up on the blogger part of the blog.

    2. It’s on my computer. I think I should get a disc copy too.

    Aloha :)

  15. Paula

    My host keeps a back up of my blog I hope it’s enough coz they’re so expensive. LOL!
    I love dropbox, I got free space because two signed up under my name.

  16. Filman Santiago

    This is a great reminder. Been thinking of creating another dropbox account intended only for my blogs. But I still don’t know yet how. Though my host is doing it already, I still see it necessary to have my own also. :)

  17. Claudia

    Good point you have there. I am actually right in the process of doing my due-diligence back-up wise. I have now an online plan to back up my zillions of photos and just purchased another external hdd to make a second/third copy when I download my pics. It is sooo important, but we just like to push it away from us, until…
    Thank you for the reminder!

  18. Laurie Kazmierczak

    Just began blogging this year…now must consider options♫♪

  19. self sagacity

    1) I keep a back-up on my computer, but that reminds me that I need to do another one for this month. I should do it more often, but of course I always wait too long in between
    2) It is offline, although you mentions drop box, I never had the need for it on the run, so I don’t include it in my drop box, but I guess it doesn’t hurt.

  20. Nicki G. The Blissful Wife

    Hi There :)

    How do you back up to DropBox? You mentioned you also back up your templates…How? I have heard so much about this but don’t know how to do it. Please help! Thanks so much!

    Blissful Blessings, Nicki G. The Blissful Wife
    http://www.blissfulvida.com

    1. Dominique

      @Niki,
      I export the .xml file from my wordpress by downloading it to my PC then dropping it in dropbox. I’m using self hosted wordpress so I download the zip of the templete which I use.

      1. Nicki G. The Blissful Wife

        Thanks for your reply ;) I have a self-hosted Word Press site too! I am gonna look it up and start doing it! Thanks so much for posting this and giving me the necessary push!

  21. Jenny Matlock

    We do a nightly automatic back-up.

    I am still laughing over the expression on your son’s face!

    What a kute picture!

    Thanks for sharing the advice and the laugh.

    A+

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