Software for backing up your LJ
Published by Deanna Hoak May 24th, 2006 in blogFor anyone considering moving their blog, or even just creating a backup of it, I’ve discovered the most incredibly useful piece of software: ljArchive.
It created an archive of my entire blog–including all 2225 comments!–in less than a minute. I can convert into formats readable by, say, WordPress (which is not owned by Six Apart, as TypePad is).
It also has some nifty plug-ins, such as the “Regression Analysis” it did of my blog:
Regressive Imagery Analysis for deannahoak’s journal
Compared to: Everyone
| Touch |    |
97.7% |
| Unknown | |
83.5% |
| Fire | |
81.8% |
Give it a shot, and please disseminate! Many of you have useful information on your blogs that it would be a pity to lose. This software is great for creating a backup, and it’s wonderful to have the flexibility to change blog providers with ease.
I’d love opinions anyone might have on blog sites or software not owned by Six Apart, too.
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You star! I shall be moving over to WordPress once I get my website up and running, and I was planning on turning my lj into a feed from it. It’ll be nice to have my blog all there in one place. Thank you so much for mentioning this before I even knew I needed it. ;-)
Isn’t it amazing how the world throws up these coincidences, almost as though it were listening in…
I understand your issue, but I hate to see you go. I quit eBay some years ago for vaguely analogous reasons.
Ach - I’m afraid that I’ve missed something. Are you planning on leaving because of the breast-feeding episode? Or is there another reason that I’ve lost in the mists of not-enough-time?
Mindy, who hopes that you don’t go, but understands if you must
Of the choices I’m aware of, which is pretty much most of them, since I’m supposedly an expert on content management stuff, WordPress is the one to look at.
Other possibilities are Dean Allen’s Textile, and Drupal. Textile is sort of moribound, and I don’t think viable for the long term. Drupal is overkill.
Why not hie thyself to http://www.wordpress.com and create a free text blog; it’s hosted on their server, so you can’t mess with the templates, but it will give you a general idea of What it’s Like.
The breastfeeding-icon thing got resolved, by the way. In your (our) favor. Apparently it was ONE guy protesting them all, because he was told to change HIS icon. And it was ONE LJ-Abuse person who sent the notices. All those trouble tickets have been closed, the originator was chastised for his campaign, AND he changed his default icon.
Personally, I think people jumped on this too fast, without giving a chance for appeal or dialogue with the LJ-abuse team. JMO, based only on the discussion linked from your previous entry, and the discussion on the originators blog.
The resolution.
All this is just my way of saying, “Please don’t leave LJ!” :-)
I’m almost certain that’s not the same thing; the most current I’ve read is that the issue is still not resolved.
I’m not sure what I’ll do. I’m just weighing my options at the moment.
As long as you let me know where you are going (And have an RSS feed, please) I’ll follow you.
Talk to John Scalzi about his setup maybe?
I use Wordpress to power my whole site. (And it comes with an import option that means you can move your journal from a slew of other providers, no hassles. Although some of them are imported via the rss feed, so comments don’t come across. Can’t remember, I moved too long ago!) I highly recommend it.
While not leaving LJ, I’ve wanted something to back up my silly little journal here for some time. Nice to see there’s a way to do that now. :)