Local backup of blog possible?
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I am looking into starting a blog for the government office I work for. I am debating whether to use WordPress.com or go with a commercial hosting service that supports WordPress. I think my main concern at this point is guaranting that we have completed access to our records at any time. I understand that WordPress.com backs up hourly; but what if WordPress.com was to stop conducting business? Is there a utility I might use that would allow me to make a local backup of our blog?
Thanks
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http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/09/28/backups/ explains how to do it. Doesn’t do the images currently I believe so you may want to keep those somewhere handy as well.
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does the backup (export) save EVERYTHING?
i mean, does it also backup the pages i create? (because I have been spending quite a lot of time formatting this and that so that everything fits together symmetrically, etc.; it would be nice if absolutely every detail of the blog is backed up)thanks in advance for helping!
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Just a note, your blogroll and anything you place in the sidebar in widgets isn’t saved. But as sulz says, posts, pages, comments are. :)
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The theme, however, is not saved either, so your formatting will go a bit wonky if your new theme is a different width or has a different font, etc.
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Posts, Pages, Categories and Comments are contained in an exported xml file. Links are not and must be separately backed up. This will give you a file of your links that you can import on your new bloghttp://yourblog.wordpress.com/wp-links-opml.php
However, quite aside from export there are other effective ways of backing up your blog and everything you write right from the moment you begin writing Disaster Planning: Backups for Bloggers
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Apology for the borked link above and the inability to edit. And do note that “yourblog” must be replaced by the actual name of your blog.
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