How do I back up my blog?
- Download and Install Mozilla Firefox
Firefox is a browser similar to Internet Explorer only faster, safer and more efficient. We're going to use this browser to export our entries because all versions of Internet Explorer have a bug where data marked as plain text can be intrepreted as HTML. The symptom of this bug is that all of your exported data will run together onto one line.
- Open your Firefox browser
- Log in to your Movable Type like you're adding and entry (i.e. http://www.yourblog.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi - or whatever your url to Movable Type is)
- Choose which web log you want to back-up
- Click on "Import/Export"
- Go down to the bottom of the page where it says "Export Entries"
- Click on "Export Entries from [your weblog]"
- In your browser, choose View > Source (your export file will open in Notepad)
- In Notepad, choose File > Save As
- Change File Name to "yourblog.txt" to a directory on your computer
Now you should have a backup of all your old entries in case anything catastrophic should happen to your blog or web host.
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- Install Typemover - a MovableType plugin that backs up and restores all your weblog data, including settings, templates, categories, authors, notification subscriptions, trackbacks and pings.
- Link your templates to files on your site
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February 6, 2006 02:58 PM |
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