File Backup

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  victimsofatoscorruption · Member · Aug 20, 2011 at 8:58 am

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  I am a complete novice when it comes to anything technical about computers etc.

  I have been told I should back up all my blog files etc but have no idea how to do it or where to start, can anyone offer any advice etc?

  Someone said I needed to use a wordpress plugin but I thought on a free wordpress account you cannot use plugins?

  Any advice would be very much appreciated.

  Thankyou

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  justjennifer · Member · Aug 20, 2011 at 9:04 am

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  WordPress.com makes regular, frequent backups of our blogs. However, if you wish to do so, you can make a backup file by exporting your blog following the instructions here http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/

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  victimsofatoscorruption · Member · Aug 20, 2011 at 12:11 pm

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  Thankyou so much for your prompt reply, I have done it and hope that I got it right, I now have an xml file on my computer, is that what is supposed to happen?

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  auxclass · Member · Aug 20, 2011 at 3:20 pm

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  Yes you seem to have done things correctly.

  The XML file is a plain text file that is formatted in a specific way to include all the text, comments, categories, tags etc. You can open the file with a text editor like Notepad. The XML file contains links to your images and other media but does not contain the images themselves.

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  victimsofatoscorruption · Member · Aug 20, 2011 at 3:54 pm

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  thankyou

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  auxclass · Member · Aug 20, 2011 at 3:55 pm

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  You be welcome