How to Backup Your Blog, and related news
Update:
Some recent posts by bloggers on the current rash of hacks: it appears that the problem is widespread:
Dirty Filthy Princess, on Desireous
Vivianne
Figleaf, who has some great tips on how to shake internet stalkers, as well as how to protect and maintain your anonymity.
Also, here are instructions on how to create a backup for your entire (blogspot) blog:
Backup
The above instructions will allow you to create a single file with your entire blog on it, including all of your comments.
Finally, if you'd like to be a team member, just leave your name in the comments here. A number of invites have been sent out already, but absolutely everyone is welcome. There is no requirement for you ever to post at all. The idea is that by being a team member, should you
yourself discover another security issue like the recent one, you can post here about it, and in that way alert the community at large.
And of course, all team members can then post sharing useful information about security in general and ways to protect our privacy.
Blogging is wonderful in part because it is so accessible to people who are otherwise without many tech skills. This very accessibility though means that many people may be inadvertently revealing more than they intend to, and I hope that this can be a place for new bloggers in particular to learn how to best protect themselves.
I'd like to thank everyone who has already posted and shared so generously of their time and knowledge, and particularly the Queen for setting up this blog, Jeff for hosting useful software and making it available to us all (posted about here) and WS Cross for her really excellent post on censorship and its consequences here below.
Cheers,
O
Some recent posts by bloggers on the current rash of hacks: it appears that the problem is widespread:
Dirty Filthy Princess, on Desireous
Vivianne
Figleaf, who has some great tips on how to shake internet stalkers, as well as how to protect and maintain your anonymity.
Also, here are instructions on how to create a backup for your entire (blogspot) blog:
Backup
The above instructions will allow you to create a single file with your entire blog on it, including all of your comments.
Finally, if you'd like to be a team member, just leave your name in the comments here. A number of invites have been sent out already, but absolutely everyone is welcome. There is no requirement for you ever to post at all. The idea is that by being a team member, should you
yourself discover another security issue like the recent one, you can post here about it, and in that way alert the community at large.
And of course, all team members can then post sharing useful information about security in general and ways to protect our privacy.
Blogging is wonderful in part because it is so accessible to people who are otherwise without many tech skills. This very accessibility though means that many people may be inadvertently revealing more than they intend to, and I hope that this can be a place for new bloggers in particular to learn how to best protect themselves.
I'd like to thank everyone who has already posted and shared so generously of their time and knowledge, and particularly the Queen for setting up this blog, Jeff for hosting useful software and making it available to us all (posted about here) and WS Cross for her really excellent post on censorship and its consequences here below.
Cheers,
O
posted by O at 6:54 PM
5 Comments:
The blogger instructions for publishing are not very clear. The final step reads as follows:
"Republish your blog; you will end up with a single file with all of your posts, formatted using the above template, at the location specified in your Settings. Open this file in your web browser and save the file to your local hard drive."
WTF does "at the location specified in your Settings" mean? HUH? Somone out there - help me... please!
God i hate when procedures are written incoherently.
Grrrr.
Minxxxxxxxxx
I *think* what that means is the url in your settings specified originally. anyone else have any light they can shed?
(I havent used these steps myself, as I had backed up my blog in a far more tedious fashion before i found these instructions on how to do it as a single file.)
That's exactly what it means. I did it last night, then opened RFG in my browser, displaying the SINGLE file. I "saved" the file from my browser as a Web Archive (using Apple's SAFARI as a browser--I'm assuming you can do the same in FireFox and IE6), then repasted my original template and saved and republished it again.
I think the confusion comes in when someone is FTPing the blog to Blogger. They need to create SEPARATE instructions for each method. The mix of the two is darned confusing.
Thanks for publishing this, O. I'm really thankful I finally have an archive of RFG
spcknght,
Oh great, thanks for shedding light on that---yes, thats what I thought was the source of the confusion, that 2 steps basially are talking about the FTP issue. You're absolutely right, they need to do that seperately. Damn you Blogger!
Thanks!
Ahem..
I realised that i was misunderstanding something perfectly simple.
*Blush*
But thank you for not pointing that out, O and spcknght... you two are total stars...
Rawr.
Minxxxx
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