A Day Without Rain Means Back Up Your Blog!

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Real Estate Agent with Taunya Fagan Bozeman Montana Real Estate 15157

A day without the "Rain" is a good reminder that you, yourself, MUST go to the effort to back up your WHOLE blog...just in case. I am sure Active Rain Corp has backup servers, but it is not impossible for AR or any other data-storing entity to lose information.

Active Rain Logo For those whose blogs are large, a loss of the months, the years of work would be devastating, so take the time to protect your hard work by backing up your blog weekly or at least monthly...and at least to two separate devices, like a thumb drive, disc(s), or external hard drive AND your computer. This way you can also assist Active Rain in the event they were to lose data.

This is a great operation--Active Rain--and with dedicated folks like us who have spent thousands of hours working on supplying each other and the public great real estate-related information. Don't take the chance on losing it!

PS: Please, may I use the AR Logo here AR guys? Sometimes it takes a few days for a "contact" response and I am impatient today.

Comments (6)

Randall Schrader
Competitive Insurance of Dundee - Dundee, FL

Great idea, I do a poker blog and they lost a month of my blogs, FOREVER!  Now they are backed up.

Nov 03, 2008 09:39 AM
Julie Chapman
DR Horton - Ormond Beach, FL
New Homes Sales Ormond, New Smyrna, Daytona Be

I would really love instructions on how to do this.....if someone is bored and would like to write this post for me......

Nov 03, 2008 09:39 AM
Cindy Jones
Integrity Real Estate Group - Woodbridge, VA
Pentagon, Fort Belvoir & Quantico Real Estate News

I write most of my blogs in word first so there is some version of them on a back up drive.  I don't know how you would back up your posts since AR is hosted and not on our own computers.

Nov 03, 2008 09:58 AM
Kara Casamassina
International Property Management Group, LLC - Aiken, SC
Boomers and beyond

That is a great idea Brett.  I'm with Julie----How would I go about doing this?? 

Nov 03, 2008 10:25 AM
Brett Fagan Bozeman Montana Real Estate
Taunya Fagan Bozeman Montana Real Estate - Bozeman, MT
Boutique Luxury @ ESTATE House, Bozeman, Montana

Thanks for the comments, guys. There are a few ways to backup;

  1. The easiest (but not the cleanest...) is to simply copy every page into a Word document (this creates dirty code issues but it's easy, collects photos and graphics, etc., and at least you get your blog backed up...and if needed, you can have someone clean up the code later).
  2. There are many programs you may download for purchase or for free--not that great; many free programs leave off photos and graphics, or only copy a page/segment. Try a Google search. But, try #1 for the quickest and easiest.
  3. For clean code but no links, photos, graphics, etc., copy your blog entries into Notepad or Adobe PDF files, i.e., text documents .txt (on most computers) or PDF documents .pdf (purchase).

Remember, Outside blogs move in concert with AR Blogs, i.e., if your AR blog goes away, so goes your outside AND Localism blogs...

Nov 03, 2008 11:01 AM
Karen Rice
Joseph J. O'Brien REALTOR Inc. - Greentown, PA
Northeast PA & Lake Wallenpaupack Home Sales

Do back it up.  I keep asking Jorgen to clarify what he meant by saying on my blog that our data was safe and yet saying on his blog that it was nice that no data was lost...and he keeps ignoring me.  Not very nice and not very encouraging.  Maybe they were mad because I suggested in my blog "What's Your Blog Backup Plan" that you have an outside blog going as well, just in case the rain shuts down one day and everything is gone.

so BACK IT UP!

Nov 08, 2008 02:27 PM

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