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
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36 comments:

  1. AvinioFebruary 8, 2007 at 12:18 PM

    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. balakumarFebruary 9, 2007 at 12:08 AM

    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. Juan José Calderón AmadorFebruary 9, 2007 at 3:26 AM

    estupendo post. Gran blog

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2007 at 5:44 AM

    Great post, thanks for the info.

    Jay

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  5. Sean MeadeFebruary 9, 2007 at 3:31 PM

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

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  6. Sean MeadeFebruary 9, 2007 at 3:36 PM

    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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  7. Alex ChituFebruary 9, 2007 at 3:37 PM

    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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  8. BarbaraFebruary 9, 2007 at 5:12 PM

    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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  9. BillFebruary 9, 2007 at 6:02 PM

    How do you restore?

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  10. helensotiriadisFebruary 9, 2007 at 6:26 PM

    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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  11. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2007 at 6:48 AM

    I'm definilty going to try this out.

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  12. DaemonFebruary 10, 2007 at 5:02 PM

    Good!

    I'll try it.

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  13. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2007 at 11:07 PM

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

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  14. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2007 at 1:13 AM

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

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  15. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2007 at 7:57 AM

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

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  16. Garlin IIFebruary 13, 2007 at 12:30 AM

    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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  17. UnknownFebruary 15, 2007 at 8:05 AM

    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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  18. Los Angeles Fire DepartmentFebruary 18, 2007 at 5:08 PM

    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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  19. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2007 at 6:58 AM

    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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  20. TommyApril 24, 2007 at 7:12 AM

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

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  21. UnknownMay 23, 2007 at 10:11 PM

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

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  22. Alex ChituJuly 15, 2007 at 9:45 AM

    @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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  23. AnonymousAugust 5, 2007 at 3:52 PM

    Great article.

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  24. Chris AndersenSeptember 20, 2007 at 7:36 AM

    how can I restore again?

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  25. Alex ChituSeptember 20, 2007 at 7:44 AM

    Use this software.

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  26. AnonymousSeptember 26, 2007 at 1:12 PM

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

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  27. AnonymousNovember 19, 2007 at 5:47 AM

    Page digged and Stumbling, thank forgood message

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  28. Berkay DinçerNovember 21, 2007 at 7:01 AM

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

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  29. AnonymousJanuary 19, 2008 at 6:37 AM

    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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  30. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2008 at 3:44 AM

    Thannk U. Information is very use full

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  31. AnonymousFebruary 16, 2008 at 11:19 PM

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

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  32. JonasLFebruary 24, 2008 at 3:17 AM

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

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  33. AnonymousMarch 1, 2008 at 2:23 PM

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

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  34. GandalfMarch 13, 2008 at 2:52 PM

    Excellent Article. Thanks a ton!

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  35. AnonymousMay 2, 2008 at 5:25 PM

    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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  36. adminMay 19, 2008 at 6:33 PM

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

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