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  bran8464 · Member · Jan 19, 2008 at 5:01 pm

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  I host my own wordpress site and would like to set up a duplicate of it on wordpress.com so is there a way to transfer all the post, and comments from my original site to wordpress.com

  I see it possible to transfer others such as moveable type but see nothing about wordpress.

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  chrislevinsonphotography · Member · Jan 19, 2008 at 5:11 pm

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  If you’re using the latest WordPress.org software, you should be able to go to Dashboard > Manage > Export and download an xml file that will contain your posts and comments. Then on your WP.com blog, if you go to Dashboard > Manage > Import there’s an option for WordPress right at the bottom. If you follow the instructions you shouldn’t have any problems.
  http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/how-do-i-move-between-blogs-2/

  One thing: mirror blogs are allowed but you’ll probably want to set your WP.com blog to private if you’re using it as a backup to avoid any problems with Technorati or Google.
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=12654&page&replies=16

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  bran8464 · Member · Jan 19, 2008 at 5:45 pm

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  Thanks. So how do I set up my wp.com blog as a mirror site – even though set as private.

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  chrislevinsonphotography · Member · Jan 19, 2008 at 5:52 pm

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  You go to Dashboard > Options > Privacy to set it to private; that should stop your blog from appearing on Google or anywhere like that, as long as you don’t link to it in your other blog.

  To make it a mirror backup of your other blog, just post to both blogs when you have a new post (use could use something like http://www.blogdesk.org/en/index.htm to make it simple) or every now and then repeat the import that you did before. Hope that helps.