If you are anything like me the recent Blogger outage gave you a chance to catch up on your blog reading! For once there weren't as many posts being added as I was reading and I actually came to the end of the list! LOL I must admit I'm not complete convinced the problems are all solved and I know many of you are missing posts and comments. (Even me :o) ) This is what Blogger say on their
blog:
Update (5/13 7:46PM PST): Nearly all posts since Wednesday are restored, now bringing back comments from last couple days. We expect the comments to be back this weekend or sooner.
What a frustrating day. We’re very sorry that you’ve been unable to publish to Blogger for the past 20.5 hours. We’re nearly back to normal — you can publish again, and in the coming hours posts and comments that were temporarily removed should be restored. Thank you for your patience while we fix this situation. We use Blogger for our own blogs, so we’ve also felt your pain.
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HEREIn the meantime you might be wondering how you backup your blog if it is hosted by Blogger...So here's my top tip for the day:
From the Blogger Dashboard select
SETTINGSRight at the top of the page the first setting is
Blog Tools You will see Import Blog, Export Blog. Delete Blog. Select
EXPORT BLOGYou should see a big ORANGE button that says
Download Blog.
Click that and a dialogue box will come up asking you where you want to save your blog on your computer. Save it somewhere safe.
What this downloads is a XML file This is all the machine code that Blogger used to encode your blog...(I think I've phrased that right) and is the same file you would use to export to Wordpress or the like.
Now you have a back up file that would be recognizable to Blogger if ever there was ever a catastrophic failure of their system. :o)
When things clam down I'll be back and tell you all about my visit with fellow quilter
Susan from Canadian Abroad...
Until next time...