Backing Up Your Account

[eileen_donovan]

Some folks seem to be freaking out about LJ deleting accounts. The servers are apparently now in Russia and that concerns some people. I've been on LJ close to 11 years and this? It's happened before! However, if you need places to back up your journal, the Question Club just had a question about that here that provides good info. And FYI,

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[kinwad]

Hey, Eileen! I've had my dreamwidth acct (same user name)forever, but other than a few initial posts, I never used it. I've been here for over ten years, and it seems as if every few years, there's a 'major' crisis w/LJ. Hopefully, this will blow over soon *fingers crossed*

[eileen_donovan]

Same here, Kin! I think the fact that the servers are no longer in the States made some people uneasy, but, hey, our pres-elect is good buddies with Putin, so what's the problem?!?

It's a good reminder to back up your data if you value it. I have all my fiction on several back-up sites as well as some of it on AO3, but I'd still like to keep all the memories I have from this place ... should something happen. :)

[gaedhal]

I know! I don't want to go elsewhere.

I'm hoping this is just the latest freak out. We've all lived through them before
and I'm hoping it will pass.

[eileen_donovan]

No, I don't want to leave either. I post non-QAF fic on AO3, but other than that I still like LJ.

I hope it's just a fluke!

[shinya_diey]

I must say I'm a little confused with the panic about the servers. LJ is owned by Russians, it does not matter where the servers are, they have full access to the data on them.
On another hand I found out few things form a couple of discussion I've read. There's a law in Russia that says all the data concerning Russian citizens has to be archived on the servers that are physically in Russia (Google, Facebook, etc. has to do that, just like anyone else). Another information was about deleted accounts. It ws confirmed by some users, but they also said most accounts was restored and the whole situation was caused by some error.
Two sides of the same coin, the true is probably somewhere in the middle.
But I can understand people being angry because LJ ties to hide all the information they are able to, but that's LJ, not the first time when it's happened.

[eileen_donovan]

There's a person on my friends' list whose LJ disappeared ... at least some of it. She freaked out. Everything was restored, but she now has a Dreamwidth account. I do think some kind of backup is a good idea if you value your content.

The Question Club has a post on this here.

Perhaps all the allegations against Russia has something to do with it. A lot of people are upset at the notion that they may have helped you-know-who get elected. Ugh!

[shinya_diey]

I have DW account and nothing on my LJ that I would miss - except friends and communities I'm part of. So I hope LJ will last for some time :)