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A show of hands how many of you out there has a habit of backing up your blog? No hands? I’m not surprise, I don’t do that too! I’ve read threads in blogging forums, horrifying pleas of help from people who have completely lost their blogs! Lost forever, unable to retrieve their years of hardwork! Since hearing those stroies, a sense of fear of completely losing my blog had always been at the back of my mind. I don’t know aout other blogging platforms, but I’m not even sure if the blogspot platform that I’m blogging from has such a backup service.

Many of us here is using or trying to use our blogs to earn an income online, yet how many of us can proclaim to have purchased “insurance” for our money making tool in the form of backing it up? Being a blogging enthusiast does not make us an expert in IT, internet or HTML coding. I’m pretty sure some of us here don’t even know how to backup a local harddisk, let alone a blog hosted on a foreign server!

Our data and content are unique and valuable, and storing them online also run the risk of it being lost just as easily as data stored on our hard drive. Without a secure backup, our blog content can be lost if a server crashes or if we accidentally delete them. Luckily, I’ve found a free web resource that provides an effortless way to backup, restore and export our blogs. It comes in the form of a website called BlogBackupOnline.com

BlogBackupOnline is a web application that provides backup of your blog content. Provided you even know how to back up at all, trying to manually back up your blog is complex and tedious. BlogBackupOnline allows you to register your blog with a few simple clicks, and then maintains a current copy of your blog content at all times by backing up your blog daily. Set up BlogBackupOnline once and then stop worrying about backup.

Getting Started

Full Backup
Once you have signed up and registered your blog, you will be prompted to start a full backup. Unlike daily backup, a full backup is user activated and not automatic. A full backup can take anywhere from a few seconds to several hours to complete, An example of a large blog with 1500 entries typically requires 2 hours to fully archive.

Daily Backups
When you register a blog, daily backups will be enabled by default. Performing daily incremental backups allows BlogBackupOnline to automatically backup of new entries, comments, and changes to the blog, so a current copy of the blog is always maintained. A daily backup typically takes less than one or two minutes to complete.

Restoring and Switching Blogs
After backing up your blog with BlogBackupOnline, it can be restored to the same blog or even a different blog platform. In the event you need to recall your blog, such as your provider deleting all your content, you can access your saved blog for a full recovery of your blog and free yourself of much hassle and stress. BlogBackupOnline thereby saves you from what would otherwise be a disastrous and irreconcilable loss.

BlogBackupOnline provides its users with peace of mind knowing that their blog is protected from loss. Backing up your blog is free while they are still in Beta. 50mb of storage space is allocated per account. As you can see from the screenshot of my first full backup, 122 posts were backup and the space used are only slightly more than 800KB. With the free 50MB of storage space, one blog can effectively backup at least 6000 posts!!!

Since signing up with BlogBackupOnline, I’ve attained peace of mind, knowing my blog is backup daily and is in good hands. If you have not buy “insurance” for your blogs, I urge you to get your free account with BlogBackupOnline. This seems like a good article to bookmark, don’t you think? The “addthis” social bookmarklet is just at the end of this post.

Special thanks to my friend Adam and Courtney for their valuable feedback provided for the research of this article.