Danger, Will Robinson!
Jan. 7th, 2009 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kerravonsenAfter hearing the news, I
(a) double-checked that my IJ is what I think it is
(b) tried to find an easy method of backing up my LJ
(c) came to the conclusion that there isn't one (at least, not for Linux users)
(d) used the LJ Export interface to export my entries from 2003 onwards, one month at a time (sigh)
The options for backing up one's LJ seem to be:
1) use LJ export (which gets all the entries, but is slow and manual and doesn't include the comments)
2) use wget to spider one's LJ, which would include the comments, but only includes public posts - despite NUMEROUS attempts, I could not get wget to be able to access locked posts.
3) download each and every journal entry by hand (insanely slow and not feasible)
Arrrgh!
ETA: I found something! ljmigrate is a python script that works on Linux and backs up your journal (and optionally migrates it) and saves comments! I'm trying it out now; I hope it works.
(a) double-checked that my IJ is what I think it is
(b) tried to find an easy method of backing up my LJ
(c) came to the conclusion that there isn't one (at least, not for Linux users)
(d) used the LJ Export interface to export my entries from 2003 onwards, one month at a time (sigh)
The options for backing up one's LJ seem to be:
1) use LJ export (which gets all the entries, but is slow and manual and doesn't include the comments)
2) use wget to spider one's LJ, which would include the comments, but only includes public posts - despite NUMEROUS attempts, I could not get wget to be able to access locked posts.
3) download each and every journal entry by hand (insanely slow and not feasible)
Arrrgh!
ETA: I found something! ljmigrate is a python script that works on Linux and backs up your journal (and optionally migrates it) and saves comments! I'm trying it out now; I hope it works.
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