Backing Up Your LJ Data

[tinturtle]

Here are several things you can do to back up your LJ posts, their accompanying comments, and other data.

1) Use LiveJournal's export tool.
This will allow you to download the text of your entries in a format that can be reuploaded later. Images and comments are not included.

2) If you have a Dreamwidth account, use the Dreamwidth importerThis

Comments

[byslantedlight]

Good idea to put this up at Safehouse.

Note that the Lj importer only does a month at a time, and of course it doesn't save any images you've used - my lj goes back to 2005, and is image heavy, so I would have to do it individually for nearly 200 months. Plus it imports into a spreadsheet, which is a bit awkward for long posts too. But a fair option if you've not that many image-heavy entries!

Dreamwidth has the same problems re: any pictures you've used in your lj - the backup saves the links to the pictures, so if your pics are in your lj Scrapbook you'd have to recreate them somehow - and of course pay for a dw account big enough to use that many images. But even the premium account only gives you 3gb, so I'm not sure how that works. The instructions talk about deleting pics from the manage pics page once they're uploaded, so maybe that's a limit per entry? Can't work it out without much more time than I've got on a sunny day like today (not seen a weekend like this for many months!)

BlogBooker is the best option for my money, because it downloads your images as well, and the only limits are from your .docx programme itself! But then it's an offline option, so no good if you want your journal still online without the hassle of re-uploading every day. But then the internet is ephemeral, as we've seen time and again, so...

But at least there are options! *g*

[yamamanama]

XML works better for me. Also imgur. Also the internet archive.

[mrfroo]

Mine goes back to 2003 and I set many of the posts to private and have sporadic posts up to the last 5 years. This is a bit frustrating and I hope I can save my content - in setting it private, it seems to be at least 2000+ posts...