BACKING UP MY BLOG

Thanks to my wonderful husband the task of backing up my blog for the years 2007 & 2008 is now complete!!!! YEAH Since we now have not one, but TWO computers, my sweet Mickey did the bulk of this task for me. I am truly so blessed. It ended up not being as huge a task as we had first thought it would be.

Several of you have left comments asking how we have done this. I know Blogger has instructions had to back up your blogs so you may want to check out their process. When we looked at it we did not fully understand it, and when they warned about maybe losing the header, etc. it scared us computer novices away.

For those of you who asked, here is what we did:

We began at the beginning and simply copied and pasted each individual post, including pictures, to Word.

Be sure and use a consistent system of saving/naming each post so they will stay in date order. What we used was: the year, the date, and then the name of the post. Example: 2007 0121 Here I Go - then the next post 2007 0126 Another Name, etc.

Once you have them all copied and pasted into Word be sure and go back and check that you did not miss or skip a post. Also, open up each post, there in your Word file, to be sure it has the post in it. In doing these 2 checks we found posts that we missed copying and a few files that were blank. Just go back to that particular post and re-do it. We re-checked ours by the month.

We chose to do ours for the full year before we put them into a folder. In other words we have a 2007 folder and a 2008 folder.

Mickey then burned them onto the computer disc as we finished the year.

I hope this will help you. If you still have further questions you can e-mail me. My e-mail address is on my "About Me" page.

Good copying and pasteing!!!!!