February 8, 2007

How to Backup a Blogger Blog

If you have a blog hosted on Blog*Spot and you've upgraded to the new version, there's an easy way to backup your blog.

This page lists the latest N posts from the blog:
http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=N
Instead of N, type the number of posts. If your blog has less than 1000 posts, you can save this page:
http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=1000

To download all the photos uploaded to your blog, DownThemAll comes to the rescue. The Firefox extension lets you download all the files with a certain extension from the current page, so it's a good way to download all the images from the previous listing.


There's also a way to get all the posts in an XML feed. This is a better format if you intend to import it in a database.
http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=1000

The number of posts can be easily obtained from the dashboard.



You can also backup the comments:
http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?max-results=1000

36 comments:

  1. Great Article!
    i'll help you to publish it if you don't mind :)

    p.s
    and added you to my rss ;)

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  2. Amazing, thanks for the tip :), Just 2 days back I blogged about the need of better Blogger backup support at:

    http://i5bala.blogspot.com/2007/02/4-simple-features-i-need-in-google.html

    Thanks.

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  3. Great post, thanks for the info.

    Jay

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  4. not working so well with my 2985 posts, but i don't blame you ;-)

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  5. turns out, better route for me, and longer weblogs, is just to pull up by the year in new Blogger archive.

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  6. Sean, you could create a HTML page that contains the links and select "save link as..." in your browser. This way, it shouldn't stall.

    Another idea would be to automate the backup using Task Scheduler or cron.

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  7. Hmmmm....my blog is 'hosted' by another site, not blogger. Can I still do this? And more importantly, can I save my pictures? the pictures are really my main concern...my blog address, is www.expatsinitaly.com/blog/barb

    Will this work for me?

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  8. the comments url doesn't seem to be correct or am i doing something wrong?.. it routes me to a feeder.

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  9. I'm definilty going to try this out.

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  10. How about backing up the original blogger, rather than the Googlized version?

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  11. How about all the COntents of the blog?
    Can we mirror our BLOG ?
    http://visitformoney.blogspot.com

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  12. This is IMHO no longer working - maximum post in feed is now 100.

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  13. I'm with Martiner.

    The XML Feed method a.k.a. the useful one has a limit of 100 posts.

    FWIW, the other method has no limit.

    How can I get ALL 404 of my posts in XML?

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  14. I'm trying http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=1000 with three old beta blogs, and it doesn't work. how ever, it does work on my new, post-beta blog.

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  15. We used this (free) utility recently, and were very pleased with the outcome:

    http://www.codeplex.com/bloggerbackup

    Best Wishes,

    Brian Humphrey
    Firefighter/Specialist
    Public Service Officer
    Los Angeles Fire Department

    LAFD Blog: www.lafd.org/blog

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  16. Now, if anyone can tell me how to take all three of these and suck them into a new Wordpress or Moveable Type installation, you'd be my personal hero.

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  17. Just what I was looking for. I also found another option, see how-do-i-back-up-my-blog (lifehacker).

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  18. "http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=1000"
    only works on standard templates; or templates that show posts.

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  19. @alfonso:

    I think it works for any Blogger blog by default. I'm not very familiar with the new Blogger layouts, but I don't see why you'd change the search pages.

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  20. Great post, thank you. Also Word Press database backup has served me well as well.

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  21. Page digged and Stumbling, thank forgood message

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  22. It's great. But what about having all the blog downloaded to your computer with their post pages?

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  23. I just link to this post

    http://techathand.net/2008/01/link-love-9-seo-buzz-blogging-windows-tools-wordpress-blogspot-tips/

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  24. Thannk U. Information is very use full

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  25. thanks for the great info.. btw how will you restore it ?? is it going to be easy ?

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  26. Hey, there is a blog backup service at http://blogbackupr.com

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  27. Can you tell us how can we restore them? (thanks for the post though)

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  28. Excellent Article. Thanks a ton!

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  29. I was just thinking about making a backup of all my blog post (on my blogger blogs), I have collected 3,472 post on all my blogs =) thnx for help!

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  30. This is what I really want to know. Many Thanks.

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