Tuesday, July 17, 2012

How to take back-up and safeguard your blog?

Recently I received a comment on one of my post "How to pull photo list from Picasa web Album with Google Data API?". The comment was from a blog reader, who has lost several weeks of hard work due to unauthorized access to his blog.

Well, I do not know about wordpress because I have not used it. This site www.SighVikash.in is hosted on Google blogger. Google Blogger provides tools which you can use to safeguard your Blog posts, comments and articles. You can take full backup of your blog posts and save it your hard disk. In future, if you need to restore your blog posts, you can do it with Google Blogger. Here is how you can take backup of your Blog:

Step 1: You need to login to your Blogger accounts.

Step 2: You need to go to Blogger dashboard and click on Settings -> Other. Once you click on Other, you will find settings related to Other sections in the right frame of your web page. Under that, there are Blog tools.

There are three tools under Blog Tools

  • Import Blog
  • Export Blog
  • Delete Blog

Export blog is to take backup of your blog. Google blogger provides backup of your Blog in XML file. When you click on Export blog link, following winodw will appear and you can choose Download Blog button.

Once you click on Download Blog button, Google blogger download your blog backup in an XML file. You can save this XML file into your hard disk. In future if you face any issue like the loss of post, you can restore this xml file. Remember you need to take backups periodically so that you have updated backup file available that you can use it in future.

Whenever you want to restore your Blog, all you have to do is the select Import blog from the Blog Tools settings. You have to provide the XML File that you backed up and Google will restore the blog of yours.

I hope it helps to people to understand the importance of taking Blog backup regularly. Thanks for reading this post.

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