What a blog looks like when it crashes

January 15, 2014

When a friend told me that her blog had crashed, and she was getting it restored, I went to her site and found this:

Wow! Fortunately she was able to get her blog restored to its pre-crash condition, but her experience got me thinking….

Do you back up your blog, and how?

January 17, 2014 p.s. – Thanks to Rob at MennoNerds, I just discovered that the characters above caused my RSS feed to fail, so I’ve substituted a screen shot instead and hope that takes care of the problem. (oh those pesky unintended consequences….)

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9 responses

Brenton Dickieson

Jan 15, 2014

I’d love to know the answer to this question.

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1. April Yamasaki
  
  Jan 15, 2014
  
  These are a few options from pc magazine, but I don’t know anyone who has actually tried any of these. http://mobile.pcmag.com/?origref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F#!/article/526e5848cb00718e082f11b5-get-organized-back-up-your-blog
  
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melodiemillerdavis

Jan 15, 2014

I don’t even know how to do that. Hope someone will enlighten us!

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Elsie Hannah Ruth Rempel

Jan 15, 2014

Mine didn’t crash completely, but my email link for followers led to a message which said it didn’t exist yesterday. I quickly realized how little I know about backing up a blog! What I do have is word copy files of my posts. How did your friend get her’s restored?

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1. April Yamasaki
  
  Jan 15, 2014
  
  Elsie, if you at least have word copies of your posts, you have more than I do! Melodie, it may be that different blogging platforms handle things differently. My other comment shares what I’ve found out about WordPress.com (not to be confused with WordPress.org for self-hosted blogs).
  
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April Yamasaki

Jan 15, 2014

My friend had help from WordPress to restore her blog. I use WordPress.com and they say: “If your blog is hosted here at WordPress.com, we handle all necessary backups. If a very large meteor were to hit all the WordPress.com servers and destroy them beyond repair, all of your data would still be safe and we could have your blog online within a couple of days (after the meteor situation died down, of course). But if you want to back up your blog content manually, you are free to do so by using the Tools -> Export option.” More info on that can be found here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/

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Robert Martin

Jan 17, 2014

And this MennoNerd is happy to say that the screenshot fixed the problem. Woo-hoo April!

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1. April Yamasaki
  
  Jan 17, 2014
  
  That was fast — thanks for the fix!
  
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  1. Robert Martin
    
    Jan 17, 2014
    
    No problem! 🙂 Loads of fun doing this geeky stuff… Glad to help
    
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