Momma Mia, Mea Culpa

Lately, I’ve had nothing but glorious time on my hands to think about an array of topics. And this topic happens to be near and dear to my heart.

I am wondering IF and HOW any of you ‘Back Up Your Blogs’? And how often do you back up your blog content? Daily? Weekly? Monthly? Never?

You see, I read a post by the one and only super adorable Terri Terri, after her website/blog had been hacked. And that really got me to thinking.

What would I do if my blog was to be “hacked”? Moreover, what you any of you do?

I suppose I would do exactly what Terri did. She was able to convert and carry over every single post and every single comment over to her new page and continue effortlessly in her awesome blogging endeavors.

Sweet.

I know most of us spend a great deal of time constructing our posts. We have labored intensely searching for the perfect words. We have carefully selected each image to compliment those words. We have deliberated for hours, even days, or months in some cases, about what topics to write about. A lot of us even count on our blogs to preserve our family memories like I do.

So how do we protect these words and how do we protect our memories?

I have been steadily blogging for two years now. (And loving every second of it.) I have written over 688 posts, many of which took forever and a day to complete. If anything were to happen to all of my work; that would be just about as devastating as having one of my limbs severed.

When I first started my journey as a blogger, I didn’t give much thought to needing any ‘protection’. I wrote most of my entries into good old fashioned Word documents. After running spell check, and upon satisfaction of my final draft, I would copy paste the document into my posts. This way, I always had a ‘hard-copy’ on hand.

I have gotten lazier over the last few months and stopped pre-writing my posts in Word, instead I’ve been writing directly into my blog. However, after reading about what happened to Terri, hard-copy word document posts are a practice I have since reinstated. Alas, that’s just not enough.

What about saving and preserving the comments? How can I ensure the safety of the beloved comments I receive? My fellow bloggers (who have also become my genuine friends) have left me some of the most totally-super-awesome, amazing, beautiful, heartfelt, funny, supportive, comments that I will forever cherish.

How do I protect YOUR words?

Fortunately, I am lucky enough to have not one, but two, girlfriends (in real life) named Leslie Poston & Jen Rinaldi who have backed up my blog and all of its contents to disk. And they have taught me how to do the same as well as how to download the data directly onto my hard drive! Thanks Ladies. You guys did a wonderful job. I am buying the both of you both dinner.

I am completely secure knowing in the event my blog/website were to be hacked I could, and would, be back up and running, in full force, within a matter of hours. Unscathed. Unharmed. With no data lost whatsoever. Yeah, it might be a little bit of an inconvenience, but that nothing worth losing sleep over.

I have also discovered a really cool external blog back up site. The lovely Olga The Traveling Bra told me about it. It was safe, easy to use, and free! I suggest everyone check THIS out.

So. Tell me. How many of you are protecting your blogs? And how?

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