Comments | da_lj: PSA: Back up your LJ

da_lj

PSA: Back up your LJ

Jan 06, 2009 08:01

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nobodyhere January 6 2009, 13:28:09 UTC

Thanks. I've actually never backed up my journal, so I'm doing it now.

da_lj January 6 2009, 13:44:16 UTC

Yeah. I think lots of people haven't.

Let me know if you end up using ljdump or something else; I'm wary of recommending "one solution for all" and I hope all of my friends can get themselves backed up OK.

nobodyhere January 6 2009, 13:49:28 UTC

I'm using LJ dump. Providing a link to a backup program in your post was very helpful :-)

mynatt January 6 2009, 14:11:59 UTC

Ah, backups. Always a good idea. Since you asked, for LJ I do them via the Logjam client, which saves XML dumps of entries and metadata.

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note mostly to self da_lj January 6 2009, 21:02:52 UTC

http://antennapedia.livejournal.com/266462.html has a much more fully featured journal migration tool which imports to other LJ-style websites (such as deadjournal, insanejournal, etc). And it can make a standalone HTML version with userpics.

merle_ January 7 2009, 20:08:37 UTC

Yeah, I've been using ljmigrate for about a year. There are things I don't like about it, like I'd like it to preserve the LJ numbers (because I use the archive so I can grep for previous entries but then want to link to them), and a calendar view would be nice.

I don't really understand how it's getting the content -- but that is probably a combination of not knowing Python and not knowing the XMLRPC interface LJ apparently has.