May 7 2007

Backup and Restore

Posted by admin in Backup, Wordpress
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One of my funniest stories from when I worked in I.T. had to do with a backup product we were looking at. The sales person told us how well the backups worked, how fast they were and how reliable they were. Finally at the end of it I asked, how well did the system’s restores run, and the young lady replied, “We haven’t done any restores lately, so we don’t know”.

Now that you have backed up your blogspot account on WordPress, what can you do? I was thinking, maybe it would be worthwhile using WordPress.com as a kind of new home base for my blog, but I then noticed they really don’t like monetization on their site too much, even though it looks quite nice on there (see at Canadian Financial Rants).

OK, so I am not going to leave my backup on WordPress the site, because there is no point in it. What I have done is set up using a Package from Apache Friends (see the side bar for it’s link), is a full WordPress that runs locally on my machine.

I then created a “shell” blog on my local machine, exported from WordPress.com an XML file, and then imported it into my local blog, and now I have my own copy of my blog, to do with, as I wish. It just makes me feel safer that I now have a copy of all 550 of my posts. I will do the same for my other non-famous blogs.