Backing Up Your LJ Data

[tinturtle]

Here are several things you can do to back up your LJ posts, their accompanying comments, and other data.

1) Use LiveJournal's export tool.
This will allow you to download the text of your entries in a format that can be reuploaded later. Images and comments are not included.

2) If you have a Dreamwidth account, use the Dreamwidth importerThis

Comments

[byslantedlight]

Good idea to put this up at Safehouse

[yamamanama]

XML works better for me. Also imgur. Also the internet archive.

[mrfroo]

Mine goes back to 2003 and I set many of the posts to private and have sporadic posts up to the last 5 years. This is a bit frustrating and I hope I can save my content - in setting it private, it seems to be at least 2000+ posts...

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[byslantedlight]

Another way of doing it, in an emergency, is simply going to your lj (or community), expanding any lj-cuts, selecting all and then copy-pasting it into a document. That gets any pictures too. Of course you'd have to go into the comments individually. Depending on the number of posts you're trying to save, you could do that for posts individually, and that would capture the comments too.

[gilda_elise]

I wasn't going to import my stuff, but I like the idea that I might end up with more icons. We'll see what happens.

[tinturtle]

Another option for single posts, whether in your journal or elsewhere, is to save the complete webpage using your browser. That will capture both post and comments unless the comments are nested deeply enough for some of them to be collapsed. Collapsed comments will be left out, sadly. Here's how to do this:

- In Firefox, go to "File > Save Page As...". In Chrome, go to "More Tools > Save Page As..." in the three-dot menu. In another web browser, look around until you find a similar option. (Alternatively, press Ctrl-S on Windows and Linux or Cmd-S on Mac.)
- In the save dialog, look for the menu that allows you to specify "Webpage, Complete" rather than "Webpage, HTML Only" and do so.
- Save the page where you want it. (There will be an HTML file and a folder of resources to support it. It is important to keep these together.)

[mulanreflection]

I assume if you have an entry with multiple pages of comments, you need to save each page of comments, correct?