Dear all,
People were asking me how to back up your LiveJournal.
Everyone
LiveJournal provides the
Export Journal page, which gives you one month at a time. It only gives you the entries, not the comments.
Everyone
LJ Book converts your journal to a nice .PDF. However, everyone and their dog, cat, mouse, and bird is using it now; the site is terribly slow.
Windows
SourceForge has a program,
LJ Archive. Supposedly, this program downloads both entries and comments.
Macintosh
(I used this method.) The program
XJournal has a "History" page. By clicking the "download" button, you get all of your entries (but not comments.)
I haven't seen recommended methods for backing up specifically under Unix.