LJ Panic Round 3,432: How to Back-Up Your LJ

[liz_marcs]

Given the news of layoffs at LJ-SF (and my sympathies to the employees, their friends and families who've been affected), a lot of people have been asking about LJ back-ups.

I don't know about Macs, but for people with PCs there is:

• LJ Archive, which creates a searchable database of all your posts as well as all of the comments. Whenever you

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[deannawol]

Inksome seems to be invite only at the moment. :(

And DreamWidth is still in development. I had a look at Vox (http://www.vox.com) today and it looks good, side bars are annoying but it's by sixapart as well and works.

[liz_marcs]

I still have my Vox account, but I never touch the thing. I sign in something like once every two months, just to make sure my account stays active, but that's about it.

[elfwreck]

inksome_invites is where people post invites.

And I suspect paid accounts are also available. I believe Inksome intends to stay invites-and-paid to avoid the problems that LJ had when it started giving free accounts for the asking, and got swamped with, well, the activity levels that got them to include advertising and keep stretching it to new areas of the site.

[married_n_mich]

Thanks for listing the backup ways. I never even thought about it.

[liz_marcs]

I got pretty anal about backing things up after the LJ Strikeout of 2007.

(Remember when those right-wing bozos came in and basically accused half the userbase of being pedophiles, and 6-Apart did exactly what they asked with zero investigation?)

I try to back up to IJ and to my searchable database once every other month. I should probably try to do it more often (like once a week).

[married_n_mich]

Oooh... yeah. I remember hearing about that, but I figured since I wasn't one I'd be safe. Although now that I think about it, that was when I put the warning 'adult content' on my LJ.

[elfwreck]

Whaddaya mean, "zero investigation?" They totally checked to see that everyone had something about sex in their interests!

Those psychos in the Lolita book club were obviously pedophiles!

[willowmina]

Have already recced backing up to my FList.

Have just been looking on Wordpress and apparently you can import from LJ - I may have to give that a go...

[liz_marcs]

There's also apparently some way to do an automatic crossposting between the two sites, as well as importing mood themes, user icons, and the whole 9 yards.

The how, though, is a great mystery.

[wesleysgirl]

LJBook works great for Macs, I've used it several times without any trouble.

[melyanna]

The only trouble with LJBook is that any time there's a panic like this, it's hard to load the site.

*grumbles* Someday I will learn to back up my LJ when there's not a panic.

[liz_marcs]

Heee!

I probably will try LJBook in a week when there's a whole lot less people jamming the site.

[crowgirl13]

Thanks for posting this - there's been a lot of interest on my flist this morning about backing up journals. You don't mind if I link here, do you?

[liz_marcs]

As long as it's public, you can always link. :-)

Thanks for asking, tho'.

[liz_marcs]

No worries. And I'm glad you found the post helpful.