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brown_betty (brown_betty) wrote in fandom_lounge,
@ 2007-06-22 17:06:00

A guide to backing up your LJ off-site
Considering Barak's most recent fabulously opaque comments on LJ's policy towards journal deletion/suspending, I thought people might be interested in a guide I put together for backing up your lj to your local computer, and offsite. It's been pretty heavily tested and hopefully it's now perfectly clear.

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	ingrid 2007-06-22 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	I have two links here from one of your fearless testers on IJ, if that's okay: http://liz-marcs.insanejournal.com/253190.html http://liz-marcs.insanejournal.com/253925.html I'm looking forward to taking the plunge this weekend. (That $30 perm account makes me happier than I should be. ;) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	brown_betty 2007-06-22 11:55 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I've been following liz_marcs' experience. I already linked one of those posts from my tutorial. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	brown_betty 2007-06-22 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	Er. Liz_marcs isn't precisely a "tester" except in that I sort of pushed my beta version public earlier than perhaps I should have. Um. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ingrid 2007-06-22 11:59 pm UTC (link)
	I'd say anyone who has taken your post as literal advice to backing up their LJ to IJ is a tester. And, whaddaknow, IT WORKED. YAY! It also worked like gangbusters for ranalore. Fab-u-lous, non? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brown_betty 2007-06-23 12:01 am UTC (link)
	\o/ Man. There's some ljs out there I would cry if they were lost; the sheer amount of fanwork hosted on lj is staggering. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ingrid 2007-06-23 12:04 am UTC (link)
	I don't think they would lose their LJ' entries from this experiment, would they? It just would come copies over to their other journal of choice all wonky, right? Because, eh ... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brown_betty 2007-06-23 12:09 am UTC (link)
	Well, no, it's the deletion/suspension that I'm worried about. Copying should preserve at least all the text. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ingrid 2007-06-23 12:05 am UTC (link)
	... "copied over", excuse me (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eilisliana 2007-06-23 12:22 am UTC (link)
	Ah, thank you. I was looking for something like this since Strikethrough '07! Now my journal is backed up to GJ/JF/IJ/LJ. (Reply to this)

	freezer 2007-06-23 12:38 am UTC (link)
	Well now... Method #2 (Fearless) worked like a charm for me! (Reply to this)

	ladysphinx 2007-06-23 03:10 am UTC (link)
	This post is relevant to my interests. (Reply to this)

	annabelle_lee 2007-06-24 04:23 am UTC (link)
	Thanks. I had a bit of a hiccup when backing up my journal from LJ to here, but it doesn't seem to have caused any major problems. No comments or moods though, but I used LJ-sec, so that's to be expected. (Reply to this)

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