How to Backup Typepad Sites
We get questions from bloggers all the time… One of the most persistant ones is “How do I back up the content on MySpace?”. So being the web heads we are, we took note some documentation about a little plugin for Firefox named ScrapBook. We read, downloaded, installed, and used it hard. And you know what? This works for every social website we surfed!
ScrapBook is a good way to keep all that content you have on any number of sites organized with a local copy that your backup to internet can automatically archive for you. With one program! No fancy command lines, dealing with widgits, it saves it for you so if any of the sites go bad, you’ve got your content.
How you ask? We did it like this.
A First, go to the ScrapBook download page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427). Click the Install Now button (green) and restart Firefox when instructed.
B Once Firefox has restarted, you’re ready to use ScrapBook.
C Click onto one of your social websites you’d like to save with ScrapBook. Once you’re there, on the menu, select Capture Page As.
D Use “Capture Page As” to set the depth of links you want to copy. This is a important! This backs up all the links on your page automatically. If you had the depth set to 0 (zero), you wouldn’t be able to copy those extra pages. Set it to 1 and you’d be able to. But if it is set to 2, you will save all the linked pages and so on.
E After picking the options you want, click Capture. A copy is now saved! Now, go to the ScrapBook menu and click Show in Sidebar. You’ll see the pages you’ve captured listed.
So this is what we’ve got so far? You now have a local copy of all the content on your LinkedIn, etc. page. So if anything goes south, your covered. But just like Ron Popiel says… “But Not only this, we have more”.
If you have a internet backup product like OPENRSM on your computer just make sure that it’s configuration has your personal files selected for backup. That way you can have all your social websites backed up and preserved with the rest of your computers essential data. And Firefox runs on windows, Mac, and Linux all the same. Not only will your computer have a full internet backup, but your social websites will be too.
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