How to Backup Blogger Blog?

October 26th, 2009 • Related • Filed Under

The whole blogging world was in chaos last Friday’s afternoon due to unexpected outage of Blogger’s server. The outage caused many blogs hosted on Blogspot were unable to be accessed – both by owners and by readers.

I was trying to read a favorite blog of mine on Blogspot when suddenly a stupid bX-59cppw error message popped up on my screen. I thought it was due to my internet browser… but it was the same in Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Firefox. Fortunately, it’s nothing serious. And, all blogs seem to go back to normal.

You see, that’s the downside of using a free blogging service. They can do anything to your blog without notice. In December 2008, Blogger did some random deletion of blogs… causing the owners losing everything in their blog!!

It’s a nightmare if you didn’t do regular backups of your blog. Backup means you save or transfer a copy of your blog contents (including pictures) to somewhere else.

I believe there are many ways to do blog backup. Some are easy.. and some are quite technical and complicated.

The most easiest way is to back up your Blogspot blog to other blogging platform. I suggest you sign up to WordPress.com and do your backups there.

How to Backup Blogger blog to WordPress blog

Here’s some steps you need to follow.

1. Go to WordPress.com and sign up if you haven’t got an account.

2. Login to your WordPress account.

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3. Scroll down until you see Tools > Import. Click on the Import.

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4. WordPress can import from a few other blogging platform such as Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad and even from existing WordPress blog. Click on the Blogger button to import blog on Blogspot.

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5. You will need to authorise the import. Just click the Authorise button and sign in to your Google account.

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6. Click Grant Access when prompted like below.

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7. You’ll be shown the following page. Here you can choose which blog (if you have many) to import to WordPress.

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It may takes some time to import if your blog content is big. Please be patience as it’s worth the wait.

If later you want to convert the WordPress backup back to Blogger, just follow the below steps.

How to Export WordPress blog to Blogger blog

Blogger does not currently support importing a wordpress blog, but you can still do it easly:

1. Login to your WordPress account and navigate to the Dashboard for the blog that you’d like to transfer to Blogger.

2. Click on the Tools > Export. Download the WordPress WXR export file by clicking on Download Export File and save this file to your PC.

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3. Click to go to WordPress2Blogger. Browse to that saved document and click Convert and save that file to your PC. In this file will be the contents of your posts/comments from WordPress in a Blogger export file.

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NOTE: This hosted application will only allow downloads smaller than 1MB.

4. Go to your Blogger blog. From your dashboard, click Settings > Basic and click Import to import the converted file.

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Comment by yatie chomeyl on 26 October 2009:

thanks 4 sharing this..will try it later
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Comment by huda on 26 October 2009:

alhamdulillah ader domain sdn ni.. xder la rsau sgt dorang delete

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Little Mama™ Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 5:58 PM
huda, ada domain sendiri pun kena buat regular backup ye.. tapi cara backup domain sendiri lain la ye.. ada backup wizard kat cpanel tu

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Comment by sumijelly on 26 October 2009:

yup…bila ada domain..senang cikit.. server leh back up kan..
tp..sumi selalu wat back up sendiri gak..
takut tetiba ada problem.. x la kelam kabut..
heheh…
info yg MBP bagi amat berguna… sila praktikkan yek kengkawan!!

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Comment by unlisted_one on 26 October 2009:

thank you littlemama…
kalau guna wordpress kita boleh letak URL tu without wordpress kan? eg: mombloggersplanet. com instead of mombloggersplanet.wordpress.com.

mcm mana nak buat tu ye? (byk betul yg i tak tau ni,..huhu)
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Little Mama™ Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 5:15 PM
unlisted, wordpress tu kalau mombloggersplanet.com tu kena bayar hosting dan beli domain naim sendiri…

mombloggersplanet.wordpress.com tu untuk free blog kat wordpress

MBP ni memang guna wordpress tapi bayar hosting + beli domain name.. every year kena bayar.

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Comment by Qastalani on 26 October 2009:

maksudnye nanti kita akan ada 2 account blog la ye? Orang bole baca dari wordpress juga?
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Little Mama™ Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 5:16 PM
qastalani, yes 2.. satu kat blogger, stau kat wordpress.. but you can buat salah satu private kalau hanya nak 1 je orang boleh nampak

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Comment by denaihati on 26 October 2009:

terima kasih lah ajar ni. I just did it @ http://denaihati.wordpress.com. Thank you
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Little Mama™ Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 5:43 PM
denaihati, great!

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Comment by Jiji on 26 October 2009:

hehehe dah jadi techsupport dah kak ros. tukar profession eh?
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Little Mama™ Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 5:45 PM
jiji, dah lama dah jadi silent tech support ni.. ada talent tak kalo me tukar profession from kira-kira duit jadi tech support..ha..ha

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Comment by zh-ena on 26 October 2009:

thanks for the info..mmg bagus kan bila dh buat backup nie..
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Little Mama™ Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 5:52 PM
zh-ena, jangan lupa buat backup ye

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Comment by sue on 26 October 2009:

waaa…. timer kasih sbb share this info.. mmg ku tertanya2 pasal back up blog nih. bagus bangetttt!!
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Little Mama™ Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 5:53 PM
sue, be sure to backup regularly

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Comment by Hanz on 28 October 2009:

Oh..this is good! Will do this one as well! Thanks Ros!
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Little Mama™ Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 8:58 PM
hanz, backup ye

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Comment by catlina on 3 November 2009:

kak ros, dah try,thanks..btw..yang denaihati weblog popular tu dah ade result ke kak?
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Little Mama™ Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:16 PM
catlina, weblog populat tu result dalam 2 minggu

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Comment by armo02 on 14 December 2009:

Thanks for the info..tak tahu pun blog buleh buat back up..thanks

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Comment by yangbaik on 26 July 2010:

wah nice tips….
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Comment by puan isah on 26 July 2010:

Baru terbaca info ini, wahh bagus! saya memang ternanti nanti backup free cam ni…nak buat sekejap lagi,

Terima kasih kerana share important info cam ni
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Comment by Hidayah on 26 July 2010:

have made a back-up of my blog. Thanks for the info I privated the wordpress back-up (I think I will one day switch to self-hosting but not now)..I have a few questions.

Q1. If ever I decide to buy a domain.. I can keep everything I already on the example.wordpress.com and it just upgrades to example.com ?

Q2. If I want to regularly add to this back-up copy, do I just follow the same steps?

Thanks.
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