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Jan 06, 2009 22:55

It's been 19 weeks since I've posted. Which is a pretty long time. But I saw this article and thought I should share with you people...

Apparently, the company that bought LJ laid off 20 of LJ's 28 employees, leaving only the bare bones staff of finance and operations folks.

So if you feel the need to back up your entries, the commenters in the ( Read more... )

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ful_house January 7 2009, 05:25:25 UTC

Did you try and back yours up Brett?

I'm going to have to wait till I get back home from memphis and get on my windows desktop.

nikkicole007 January 7 2009, 21:54:34 UTC

Good to know! I'd be heartbroken if 4 1/2 years of mindless rambles just went down the drain.

_mcm_ January 8 2009, 01:46:48 UTC

Okay so now I'm totally terrified and I can't back up. Because I'm on a Mac? Everything looks like wingdings.

ful_house January 8 2009, 02:01:23 UTC

yep. i read the article and it says you can only backup to Windows.

winsty January 8 2009, 15:58:25 UTC

There's an app that is supposed to do it via GUI, but I couldn't get it working.

The situation isn't quite as bad as initially reported:

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/01/06/livejournal-makes-deep-personnel-cuts

But it's a good idea to back it up (one of the reasons I cross post all my articles on my own blog.)

There are command line tools for OSX that will dump the database for you.

http://bryant.livejournal.com/659249.html

None of those options are particularly Mac-like though, but they'll work on a Mac.