ellenkushner (
ellenkushner) wrote2012-04-26 03:26 pm
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How do you back up LJ?
I got quite a scare a couple days ago, when the LJ site was down, and I realized that 7 years' of musings (including back when I was working on TPOTS & blogging about it!) could be quite simply gone in an instant.
I know there are ways to preserve it all, but am not quite clear on what is the best way to go about it. Advise, please?
ETA: I have a Mac. And will Dreamwidth archive all the old posts as well, or just whatever new I put up once I've synched? And what if Dreamwidth sustains Alien Invasion & is lost forever, too?
I'm so ignorant.
Thank you.
ETA ETA: I think I've got it - thanks very much to all who took the time to advise me!
I know there are ways to preserve it all, but am not quite clear on what is the best way to go about it. Advise, please?
ETA: I have a Mac. And will Dreamwidth archive all the old posts as well, or just whatever new I put up once I've synched? And what if Dreamwidth sustains Alien Invasion & is lost forever, too?
I'm so ignorant.
Thank you.
ETA ETA: I think I've got it - thanks very much to all who took the time to advise me!
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/
It may take a few tries the first time as it chokes on the size of the archive, but after that it runs smoothly. I've never had any security issues.
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I'm not sure if the fix for it has made its way to the SourceForge site, but here it is.
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System.UriFormatException: Invalid URI: The Authority/Host could not be parsed.
at System.Uri.CreateThis(String uri, Boolean dontEscape, UriKind uriKind)
at System.Uri..ctor(String uriString)
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.LJServerFactory.Create(String url)
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ThreadStart()
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You might try dropping a note to the woman who commissioned the fix. She isn't a developer, but she paid someone who is.
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I thought about writing the person, but I could find no e-mail address on the page you linked to, there were no links to other pages, and sliding up the directory chain didn't help either.
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Important posts I simply cut and paste into a small TextEdit file. Really important posts I turn into html and post on the romm.org site.
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ljArchive is a windows program that can do it. Someone recently posted a link to an updated version. It pulls posts and comments.
(Not sure if you're a Windows, Mac, or Windows user, let me know if you want the link.)
Another way is to set up an account on Dreamwidth and have it mirror your journal. Unless you start posting on DW and crossposting automatically to LJ (which I do, invisibly), you'll need to periodically resync, but it services as a great mirror, and if LJ goes down completely your entire blog is already extant, and you just have to give out the new address.
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*dons librarian/archivist hat*
As others above have said, the LJ archive app is nice. You can also consider looking at the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine's FAQ to see if you might use their ArchiveIt service, or at least submit your LJ for crawling.
http://archive.org/about/faqs.php
Once you've settled on a place for your literary papers, you might want to discuss how they plan to archive your digital presence, too.
:-)
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My computer hated LJArchive years ago and I haven't ventured near it again. Given that this is several computers ago, I should probably take a look at it. Anyway, it looks as if you could get plenty of impromptu technical support from just the commenters so far, should it decide to kick up its heels and sneer at you.
P.
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After that, just import again every few weeks to keep up with your new posts. Or you could crosspost but I don't know how to do that from LJ to DW-- only the other way around.
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As for if it sustains an Alien Invasion, I think that will be the least of our worries. However, you will not have any worries about evol sponsors taking offense to your posts and trying to remove things-- DW is totally fan-run, and is under the umbrella of the Organization for Transformative Works.
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Unfortunately, as far as I know, there's no way to set up livejournal to automatically crosspost new entries to dreamwidth. You can, however, set up a dreamwidth account that automatically posts entries made in dreamwidth over to livejournal. Here's the FAQ (http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=98) about crossposting. (I'm too lazy to completely switch over to dreamwidth, but many people seem happy reading and posting in livejournal from dreamwidth.)
I don't know what to do about Alien Invasions. Cower under the bed? ;)