David,  Thank you for letting me know this...:-)

Howdy David

Congrats on a very good and helpful blog post. Thanks for letting all of know bout this.

David, what a great tip!  I have lost countless draft articles for one reason or another.  This service sounds like a great solution!

What a great tool! We'll be sure to check it out...Thanks David!

Scott

Ugh!  My hard drive went about 3 weeks ago. I lost years worth of stuff, you would think I would have learned!

Backup stuff always makes me nervous!  Does this mean blogs are "not" for all eternity?  Good info.

Ann... someone did a post on that today... don't give up on the drive!! go get a hard drive enclosure and connect it to another computer via USB - you could still save the files.... for whatever reason techs just don't even try. i had 2 "dead" hard drives and the tech told me this would never work... it did

and it did for many other people I spoke to!!

Scott, Dale and Matt - thanks!

 Leah!! BAD GIRL!! SAVE AS DRAFT every 5-10 min of typing!  Same as in Word, Excel, Point etc!

David, I might try this, but I have two hard drives on my computer.  I use one as my main drive and the other as my back-up.  I have been doing this for years and it has always worked well for me, but your suggestion seems to be something that is worth me considering doing.

Thnaks for the tip, Backup is something I sure need to do more of, first my computer then my blog.

Super cool tool David, thanks for sharing! 

Great info David.  I am going to try it.  I have been trying to figure out a way to back up everything easily.

Wow great tip, I'll give it a try

ok so the title was a bit of a "Name that Tune"/Pop Media reference... and no one's mentioned it yet !!

I am going to give this a try.  There is nothing worst than working up a sweat typing up a great little post only to hit submit and you get that white page with the tiny writing saying something about an error.  Then you go back and its GONE!!  ughhhhh..... I will see if this helps!

Interesting thought, I can see it coming in handy for moving your blog from one place to another but not sure about backing up for the other reasons.  I type my posts in Notepad and save them there until I am ready to post them so I guess that is my form of backup.

I'm checking in a few minutes, sounds great..

Thanks,

Tom

This is a great tool (I'm backing up as we speak).  I usually write in Google Docs, which saves as you write, but once I post in draft mode I always make some changes, and maybe even add pictures, so the copy I have in Google Docs is not always true to the finished product.  This is going to be a great tool for me, so thanks for sharing!

Kimberly - if THAT is what you're looking for... definitely look @ my posts on Windows Live Writer...

this is for after you've posted, then it goes and hunts down your post and saves it for you.

Everyone else... Better safe than sorry!

I backed some up...need to do the rest...bookmarked to check out in am.

David, great tip!  You can always use a backup system!

wow!  blog backup?  never thought that would be important, but I guess I have spent a lot of time writing...good idea David

thank you so much for sharing this.  We so often forget to back up until it is toooo late and soooo much is at stake.  This is a wonderful resource.  Thx  Janie

who isn't using this??

Wow, I didn't even think about that, I back up everything else why not my blogs??  Great advice, I am definitely checking out the service.