Saturday, March 18, 2006
backing up, etc.
In light of the near disaster that hit Betsy's Page and Viking Pundit and a few others the last few days (read about it here (Betsy's post), here, here and here), I decided to put myself through the backup process that Blogger outlines. Backing up the template is just a matter of copying so that's peachy but backing up the posts is a lot less slick. The good news is that the posts backup works, in the sense that all the text is now preserved. The bad news is that it's preserved in a plain old text file so it would have to be copied it back post-by-post. Ugh. On the other hand, the basic good news is that the posts do exist separately from the blog now.

According to Viking Pundit, he was eventually informed that "[his] blog was automatically deleted by Blogger as part of the “automated spam prevention system. How I fell into this category, I have no idea since I have no blogads, backtracks or other things beyond text and some picture links." Brother! I mean, granting that Blogger is free, I still have to believe that Google makes money from it somehow or they wouldn't leave it out here for millions of us to use and keep using, especially considering that they actually stopped providing a fee-based version. Anyway, Blogger really needs to come up with a way to provide full backups if they're really needed. And to be more human-being responsive.

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