The public beta of BlogBackupOnline is out! We finally released the updated beta last night - now anyone can register and back up their blog with BlogBackupOnline.

To recap, BlogBackupOnline allows you to:

- create full backups of your entire blog
- register for automatic daily backups of your blog
- restore your blog
- transfer your blog from one platform to a different platform
- export your backup files to any location

With BlogBackupOnline, your blog content is no longer locked up with your hosting provider, and your blog can be restored at any moment.

Not to mention that BlogBackupOnline is still free while we are in beta.

We've had more than 100 users register already, and we'd like to thank everyone for registering and sending us your emails and comments.

We hope that you'll try out BlogBackupOnline and find that it alleviates a lot of aches and pains with trying to back up your blog.

As with all betas, this isn't a perfect service, but we're working every day to make it better. Please contact me with any questions, bug reports or feedback - I'll be glad to help.

Thanks for stopping by, and please let us know what you think of BlogBackupOnline.

Oh, and a big thanks to StartupSquad for the great BlogBackupOnline review!

Labels: backup, blogbackuponline, Blogger backup, Techrigy, weblogs, wordpress backup

I just stumbled upon a story worth sharing.

"So … that’s all the content of this site lost. Around 700+ postings, all the comments, all the pages, all the links, all gone. Nice one. I’ve managed to recreate the wordpress database and put up this initial posting, but as for all the old content, it looks like it’s gone. As will I be, when I sort out a new hosting provider, but until then, sorry folks, all the old stuff is no more."

Mark was able to point people to the Internet Wayback Machine for some of his lost content.

Here's the link:
http://laurentschneider.blogspot.com/2006/11/backup-your-blog.html?

Labels: backup, blogbackuponline, Blogger Blogspot

Here are some interesting stories in the news today.


http://www.bloghash.com/2007/02/smooth-upgrade-to-wordpress-211-in-8-steps/ upgrading blog version without losing old content

http://amix.dk/blog/viewEntry/19092 using gmail for some backups

http://blog.totalkiss.com/2007/02/youtube_crashes.html youTube & google "crash"

http://thecontentwrangler.com/article/web_based_content_management_is_your_data_saasafe/
saas content safety

Labels: backup, SaaS, wordpress, YouTube "Blog Backup" Blogger Blogspot

Some interesting posts for the day:

From bloggingstocks.com, here is an article on backup. It talks about how we should perform backups, different ways to do backups, and some options to pick from. Specifically they address the issue of "essentially trusting your data to someone else".

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/02/19/technology-for-the-rest-of-us-back-it-up-baby/

Here is an interesting new service - bandwagon (http://ridethebandwagon.com/) - which provides online iTunes backup. They are suppose to launch tomorrow.

Labels: backup, bandwagon, bloggingstocks, itunes

I figured I would post today about Gliffy (http://www.gliffy.com) since I just finished using it and found the experience great! It's not the first time I've used it and honestly, it makes perfect sense. If you haven't checked it out, it's Visio-like but free and with no install. Considering I only use a diagramming tool every couple of months, I simply don't want to shell out for Visio and I don't want to download it, install it, etc... so Gliffy is a great solution.

Check out Gliffy's blog at http://www.gliffy.com/blog/. One of their latest posts is on a new plugin to Confluence, an Enterprise Wiki (http://www.gliffy.com/blog/?p=41), so it looks like they are very busy over there. Hats off to Chris and Clint!

Now to tie this into backup - this is another opportunity for backup of online content. I have some documents stored up on Gliffy I would not be happy with if they "went away". I really ought to have a backup but currently there's not much I can do to make that happen. I guess I could go through and save a .PNG of each document each time I make an update. Not practical.

Gliffy doesn't have an API (that I am aware of) to suck a copy of your files out. Maybe a "Save as Visio document" feature would facilitate the capability to provide a backup.

Well, needless to say we are going to look into adding support for backup of your Gliffy documents to BlogBackupOnline.com. We will let you know how that works out.

Labels: backup, Gliffy, Visio