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

Do you have a plan?

[livejournal]

User archersangel referenced to your post from Do you have a plan? saying: [...] es. If you do go to DW, here are a couple of LJ posts by users to Help; Backing Up Your LJ Data [...]

Day 68 of 365: Sickness and Doctors

[livejournal]

User diaryof40ishman referenced to your post from Day 68 of 365: Sickness and Doctors saying: [...] sites to backup your blog or turn it into a book:https://the-safehouse.livejournal.com/1663976.html [...]

[madman101]

DW stopped importing from LJ.

[byslantedlight]

I don't see an announcement on dw about this?

[madman101]

You're right. I should clarify in my post. They stopped xposting. Importing option is available but almost completely dysfunctional - https://madman101.dreamwidth.org/1866281.html

[byslantedlight]

That makes more sense! I see importing is still working for people occasionally, so it's definitely still worth trying. 😊

[littlemissnovel]

Thanks for sharing this information!

[tallblue]

I used Blog book for all the back years ... Now I recreate by day or week in a note program, a Tree type note program. I use Cherry Notes, it looks exactly like my journal each node a month and each sub-node a day, I even cut out my graphics and placed it in my note program, have an icon page, scrapebook and each day any comments is copied as a sub-node to the original post. I could not do my whole journal it would take to long, so I did all my years at one time with the blogbook and then do weekly add-ons on my local tree type notes program. I don't want to pay more for my backups then what Live journal cost.

[cinnamontoast]

I think you mean CherryTree? I recognized it because I'm a Linux user and it's in my repository. I downloaded it. I see that it will import folders of HTML (XTML) files. Thank you for mentioning it! I'm going to give it a go tomorrow to see if I can get everything packed in there.

[tallblue]

Yes CherryTree! I run Linux also but they also have a win version and a mac version if you run macports or homebrew. It was fun to play with. Each node is a different section of my journal. I hope you like it!