Does importing wipe my website, i want to create a replica

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  rakeshmadupu · Member · Apr 19, 2013 at 6:24 am

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  I just want to create a copy, i do not want to wipe out my site , will import do the same ?

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  danielisreading · Member · Apr 19, 2013 at 8:11 am

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  You can export a copy of your site, by going Tools -> Export, nothing will happen, you are just downloading all your content to have in a file on your computer.

  With importing, I believe that your current site and the one you are importing will ‘merge’, so nothing is ‘wiped out’ in the process.

  Are you looking to create a new blog? Or you just want a backup of your blog?

  Export: http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
  Import: http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/

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  rakeshmadupu · Member · Apr 19, 2013 at 8:12 am

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  Thanks for the support. I had a self hosted wordpress blog and recently it was hacked. I was in no position to recover from the old website. Now that i had data from 2008-2011 from blogger i could import into wordpress. I want to create a replica of this blog so that when in future even if my site gets attacked, i can restore from this. Thats the idea