Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Back Upwardly Your Blogger Blog: Photos, Posts, Template, In Addition To Gadgets

When did you lot final brand a backup of your Blogger blog? Imagine your blog's posts or photos were inadvertently deleted, you lot lost access to your account, or you lot made changes to your weblog you lot could non undo - would you lot survive able to restore your blog? Make a backup today!

Your blog's posts, photos as well as template all postulate to survive backed upwards separately. While that tin survive a combat of a hassle, it besides way you lot tin apace brand a backup of your blog's template earlier making changes or simply your blog's photos.

1. Back upwards your blog's Photos

2. Back upwards your blog's Posts as well as Comments

3. Back upwards your blog's Template

4. Optional: Back upwards the contents of HTML/Javascript as well as Links Gadgets

Before you lot start, create a folder on your computer, external difficult drive or backup device to shop all the files together.

Back upwards your blog's photos using Google Takeout

The images you lot upload to your Blogger weblog are stored inwards your Google Album Archive (get.google.com/albumarchive)
The images you lot upload to your Blogger weblog are stored inwards your Google Photos, which tin survive accessed through Picasa spider web albums or your Google+ Photos.

The easiest way to dorsum upwards your photos is using Google Takeout, which lets you lot dorsum upwards your weblog posts at the same time.  I've outlined how to backup your photos using Google Takeout below.

As an alternative, you lot tin besides download your photos directly from Google+ or from Picasa Web Albums Google Album Archive (get.google.com/albumarchive).

Note: this archive may non include videos you lot receive got uploaded straight to Blogger. If you lot include videos inwards your weblog posts, I strongly recommend uploading them to Google+ Photos, Picasa Web Albums or YouTube first, hence inserting the videos into you lot posts.

1. Sign inwards as the writer of your Blogger blog

Note that if your weblog has multiple authors, each writer volition receive got to dorsum upwards the images they added to posts from their ain Google account. If you lot post using a Google+ Page, you lot volition receive got to sign inwards to the Page's concern human relationship directly earlier downloading your photos.

2. Open Google Takeout  (https://www.google.com/settings/takeout )

3. Select Google Photos inwards the listing of Google products



You tin include all your photograph albums (which I'd recommend), or simply select your blog's private album or albums.

Your images volition survive exported inwards their master copy upload format.

Note: at this stride you lot tin besides direct to dorsum upwards your Blogger blog's contents - run across below.

4. Click the bluish Next button at the bottom of the page.

5. Customize your download format



H5N1 .zip file is the default, as well as tin survive opened on virtually whatever computer

6. Select a delivery method

H5N1 link to the archive volition survive emailed to you lot when it is ready, or you lot tin receive got the archive added to Google Drive.

I don't recommend exclusively storing your backup inwards Google Drive, because if you lot lose access to your Google account, you lot volition lose access to Google Drive equally well. Store a re-create on your computer, an external difficult drive or inwards a dissimilar concern human relationship (or practise all three).

7. Click the bluish "Create Archive" button.

8. Download your Archive

When your archive is ready, Google volition ship you lot an email. Large archives tin accept hours or fifty-fifty days to create. Archives are available to download for a week.



Click the "Download" push clitoris to download the archive to your computer.

9. Check the archive to brand certain all your photos are at that topographic point as well as you lot tin opened upwards the files.

Back upwards your blog's Posts as well as Blogger Comments

There are 2 ways to backup your Blogger blog's posts: you lot tin role Google Takeout or you lot tin export a re-create of your weblog from your Blogger settings.

Note that your blog's Blogger comments volition besides survive exported, but Google+ comments volition not.

Back upwards your blog's posts using Google Takeout

If you lot are creating an archive of your blog's photos, you lot tin  use Google Takeout to dorsum upwards your blog's posts at the same time.




Note that exporting re-create from your blog's settings is the quickest as well as easiest way to brand a backup if you lot are non already backing upwards your blog's photos using Google Takeout.
Back upwards your blog's posts from your blog's settings

Learn to a greater extent than inwards the Blogger assistance center: Export or Import Your Blog

1. Sign inwards to Blogger (www.blogger.com/home)

2.  Open your blog's Settings > Other

Click your blog's title, hence click Settings inwards the left carte du jour or using the quick navigation carte du jour on the Blogger dashboard.  Click "Other" from the Settings navigation.


3. Under Blog Tools click "Export blog"



4. Click the orangish Download Blog button



5. Your weblog volition right away start downloading

The exported file volition survive named blog-mm-dd-yyyy.xml where mm-dd-yyyy is the date. H5N1 weblog exported on Apr 12, 2015 volition practise a file blog-04-12-2015.xml

6. Close the Export weblog window when the download is complete.

The exported xml file tin survive imported into roughly other weblog or viewed inwards a text editor.

Back upwards your blog's Template

The Template sets the way your weblog looks, but does non include the posts or contents of gadgets.

Make certain you lot brand a backup earlier you lot edit your blog's Template!

1. Sign inwards to Blogger (www.blogger.com/home)

2. Open your blog's Template

3. Click the Backup/Restore push clitoris on the upper right


4. Click "Download total template"


The template volition download equally an .xml file that you lot tin upload to a dissimilar Blogger weblog or to restore your master copy template afterwards editing.

The file scream volition survive template-[19-digit-blog-ID].xml

5. Once the download is complete, unopen the Backup/Restore window

Back upwards the contents of your blog's gadgets:

There isn't whatever tardily way to brand a backup of your blog's HTML/Javascript or Links gadgets. You volition receive got to manually relieve  the content of your gadgets into a file, hence re-add that content manually if your gadgets postulate to survive restored

Save a re-create of the HTML of your blog

If you lot don't desire to fuss alongside making an organized backup of your blog's gadgets you lot tin apace relieve the HTML of your blog, which should include your blog's visible gadgets. If your gadgets postulate to survive restored, you lot would postulate hence to discovery the gadget code inwards the HTML.

1. Open your weblog inwards a spider web browser

2. Select the selection to Save the spider web page (ctrl-S on Windows or cmd-S on a Mac)

3. I unremarkably set the file type to HTML only to practise a evidently text file



Store the file alongside the balance of your blog's backup files.


Make an organized gadget backup file

If you lot desire a to a greater extent than organized backup of your blog's gadgets, you lot tin practise a file alongside their contents.

1. Create a novel text file to shop a re-create of the contents of each gadget. 

This file format should survive evidently text, non formatted.

Windows: Notepad
Mac: TextEdit
Online: practise a draft Blogger weblog post inwards HTML manner as well as glue inwards the gadget contents. The draft post tin survive backed upwards alongside the balance of your blog.
Chrome: Drive Notepad app for Google Drive


2. Open your blog's Layout



3. If you lot receive got added a HTML/Javascript gadget, click Edit



3. Copy the contents of the gadget as well as glue it into a text file



4. If you lot receive got a Links List or Blog Roll gadget, you lot volition receive got to re-create each private link inwards the listing into your document.

5. Save the text file on your computer

Hopefully you lot volition never postulate to role these backup files. But if your weblog is inadvertently modified or deleted you lot volition survive happy you lot created them.

Updated March 2019

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