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Wednesday November 14, 2007

TOTD #17: Backing Up your Blog Posts on Roller

This TOTD explains how to back up your blog posts hosted on Roller-based installations. The instructions are borrowed from Rich's original post.

Download blogapps-examples (1.0.4 as of this writing).
Go to the directory blogapps-examples-1.0.4\java and invoke ant.
Go to blogapps-examples-1.0.4\java\ex02\dist\grabber directory and edit config.properties to match your settings. My config file looks like:

download_dir=./bsc_saved blog_apitype=metaweblog blog_username=arungupta blog_password=<my password> blog_id=arungupta blog_url=http://blogs.sun.com/roller-services/xmlrpc max_entries=1000
If you are running behind a firewall, add proxy host and port information to Grabber.bat as:

java -Dhttp.proxyHost=<proxy host> -Dhttp.proxyPort=<proxy port> -classpath %_cp_% com.manning.blogapps.extra02.Grabber %1 %2 %3
And run the script Grabber.bat.

All the blog entries are locally stored in the directory specified in config.properties (./bsc_saved in this case). And a convenient grabber-index.html page is generated that indexes all the entries.

There are multiple directories in my blog resources. Moreover I'd like to link the resources to my backed up blog posts as well. So backing up resources seems like a slightly more involved process so I'll try that later. Otherwise Grabber is very cool and convenient for those in-flight and airport lounge times :)

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