One of the things I previously used this blog for was reviewing interesting web applications. I did manage to get one of my posts restored regarding a cute little app for creating your online profile picture, mypictr. Very handy site for the graphic-impaired. Well, I’ve stumbled upon another neat (yes, I said ‘neat’) web app.
Meet blogbackupr. (Again with the poor vowels…they get no respect)
I discovered blogbackupr while searching for a way to back up my many different blogs. After the stark realization that blogger does not offer such a convenience, I continued my quest to find a suitable solution. I haven’t used blogger much, except the family/personal blogs that over time have collected quite a lot of memories.
Blogbackupr, while difficult to type, is an easy solution for backing up blogger posts. Free sign up, click here and it’s done. Took me all of 60 seconds. After logging to their site, I easily nav’ed my around, found what I needed, and was very pleased with the results. Not only did I have a backup, I could also see my posts (arranged by title) and my media (pictures) were there too! An added bonus. They also offer daily backups, and you can use their service for other blogs, like wordpress, and any other rss-supported blogs.
Now, what I’d like to see…a few more export options. They have the standard html, txt and rss. I haven’t tried to backup wordpress using it yet, but I hope to see some database export options, other than txt. However, I was pleasantly surprised to see my txt file formatted enough to not just be a line-by-line mess of everything I’ve ever typed. It was actually formatted by post and title with spaces, so it was legible. Yay, programmers.
Now, I’m off to see what it can do for Wordpress. Despite the obvious, wordpress has the greatness of plugins and much already built in to it, it would be nice to have a central location of all my blog data backed up.
