PSA: Backing up your LJ on DW

[thistlechaser]

(I've been trying to post this for more than 24 hours now. Lovely timing, LJ people. *sigh*

Sorry to everyone I didn't leave comments to. FB's ultrasound pictures!!, LAM's blueberries, everyone who had good or bad days. I couldn't leave comments, click cuts, or leave comments. Blah.

HOLY CRAP IT POSTED. 30+ HOURS OF TRYING TO GET THIS POST UP (pass the Viagra?). Gah.)

For the longest time, I said I couldn't move to DW because (among other reasons) I had ten years of posts on LJ. I'm still not intending to move, but with the LJ downtime/issues in the past few days and the LJ backup tool no longer being updated or supported, I was looking for other options.

Little did I know that you could import your entire LJ (comments, locks, and all) to DW with little more than a click of a button. Okay, you actually need to give your LJ name/password (which made me a little twitchy) and click two buttons plus select what you wanted imported from a checklist, but that's nearly the click of a button!

"RTFM!" Yeah, yeah, I've never read the DW FAQ. If I had, I would have found out about this sooner. Here is the FAQ page which contains the link to start from. It warns it might take up to a day to complete, but it's only 20 minutes for me and it's on the last step.

I'm not sure how I'll handle future posts (if I do at all), I've always updated directly on LJ and not on a client, but backing up all my previous entries makes me very happy. (The LJ backup tool still works for me, so I have an offline version as well, but it could die at any time.)

I'm kind of not happy with my DW journal. I was using it for Haken's IC posts for a time even though the account name is thistlechaser. I should have made a separate one for his... I guess if it ever becomes my primary blog I'll weed them out and put them somewhere new, but for now: Yay backup!

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Oh, and if anyone saw the Teenycom post from yesterday and wonder where it went, I deleted it. The seller replied to me right away (she did in fact send the wrong hat to the wrong person and the other buyer contacted her the same day as well). Either she's going to refund me all of the money and I'll keep the fugly hat, or the other seller and I will both return the hats to her and she'll send them out again. I'm waiting to hear which.

Comments

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

Let's see if I can comment again...I have been locked out of LJ for a couple days too.

I use DW as a backup journal. It is really easy to crosspost from there, so I write my posts on DW now.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

And it's pretty easy to set the little "comment whereever you like" footer in your LJ posts, if you want.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm thinking about doing. I heard that through this LJ blurble you could post on DW and it would 'store' it and post it to LJ once it was able. That would have been a lot handier than keeping the darned LJ window open all this time!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

HOLY CRAP IT POSTED. 30+ HOURS OF TRYING TO GET THIS POST UP (pass the Viagra?).

Just remember if it stays up for more then 4 hours, consult a physician.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha! Every time I post a comment, there's a long delay. I keep thinking things went down again! I think LJ very much needs a trip to the hospital.