BlogBackupOnline will be down for the weekend. We are moving the server into a new data center. All your backups will continue and we will be back online ASAP over the weekend.

Labels: blogbackuponline, maintenance, outage

We've received a few emails telling us how some users have been unable to back up and restore the comments on their blog. We know that this is a must-have feature with blog backup, so we've been hard at work solving the problem.

Steven and Jay have created a fix for comment backup and restore, and we went live with the changes last night. You should now be able to backup and restore blog comments. When restoring comments, the comments are added to the end of the body of the blog post. The essential usability of the comments after restore is the same, although technically the comments are not restored to specific comment fields. We're working on this though.

Please send us your thoughts on the new feature.

Keep tuning in - we have a lot of new information and thoughts about the company and future product developments that we'll be sharing with you in the coming weeks, and we'd like to hear what you think.

Hope you are enjoying the spring weather, and thanks for stopping by.

Labels: blog backup, blogbackuponline, comment restore

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

I think it is great that people are beginning to understand the importance of backing up their content. There are new posts almost daily with the "work-arounds" users have figured out.

Here are another 2 entries in the "thanks, but do I have to?" blog back up methods category:
http://www.ashbaughonline.com/2007/02/15/blog-backup-strategy/

http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/BlogBackup/

The point is that these are work-arounds developed by people who understand how all the pieces fit together.
But-blogging has gotten simple enough for everyday users like me to join in, and I don't understand most of what is happening in the background. I don't want to. That's what this Web-as-platform, social-networking, join-the-community explosion is all about.

Labels: blogbackuponline, blogs

Hi, my name is Alison. I joined the Techrigy team this week. BlogBackupOnline.com will be in private beta by the end of next week and the caffiene is flowing. If you want to add your name to our list of testers send an email to beta@blogbackuponline.com.

Blog are not immune to the evils that come at us over the web. We download security updates, scan our emails, protect our PCs and back up our data. Our web based content is more vunerable-making stories like the one below inevitable.

Bloggers get Hacked is a catchy headline. It’s a short piece about being “under attack”, and how personal it feels. Starting up a blog is essentially joining a community, and we want to feel secure within that community. Feeling secure requires that we have control of ourselves and our “stuff” and this little piece highlights the importance of that control.

BlogBackupOnline allows you to take control of your blogs. Back up your remote data to our secure data center. Export it, restore it, receive it on DVD-it's under your control.

Labels: blogbackuponline, blogs, hacking