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theboondocksisters

How to Backup your Tumblr

fiction-is-not-reality

I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +6k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search.

Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog*

*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted.
Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat.

I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing:

1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month)
2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog)
3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it)
4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not)
5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)

**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted.

So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes.

P.S. I didn’t have any issue, but to be on the safe side always check for spyware and virus threats before and after downloading anything.

thepirateking

this is actually really useful if you have an art blog full of years of work that you otherwise no longer have access to the original files. A lot of the art I have in the early days of my art blog are in that boat. I did this process JUST for that reason and I was pretty astonished at just how many pieces of media it backs up! (literally all of it) Drawings I didn’t even realize were sitting in my archive due to having been posted to text posts or undercuts, or untagged for years! It’s worth it if just for that, even if tumblr isn’t shutting down or deleting your blog.

mayalaen

REBLOGGING AGAIN BECAUSE THIS IS AWESOME!! It even gave me archive pages that show my entire month on one page and it’s organized by YEAR/MONTH.

I’ve got every bit of media i’ve ever posted and it’s all organized. The regular posts are each there by themselves if you want too!

theboondocksisters

Alternatives to Tumblr if Yahoo goes any further

nickthenerd

Soup.io - well-known alternative to Tumblr. Reblogging, post types, themes, collab blogs, dashboard, artsy, great community already there. Soup can auto-import everything you’ve posted on Tumblr.
TypePad - Includes reblogging. Dashboard and post types similar to Tumblr.
Jux - Artful posts, beautiful blogging experience

bollymusings

Reblogging cause one day it just may be neccessary.

arubbishmedic

It became necessary

mckaytriarchy

WordPress will also import Tumblr blogs.

tetsarou

Some other options guys if nothing gets better

Source: techtrash

When one of the guys you went to high school with, who tormented you a bit. Ends up on tv…how the fuck. Karma come on.

Tuesday

I sit at home, day after day, with nothing to do and hardly anyone to talk to. Its really starting to get to me.

The only time I get out of the house lately is to go to work. Where I have a few people to talk to. But I don’t talk about my personal life at work.

My two best friends are always busy and I can just feel my depression getting worse and worse as days blend together and hours feel like days.

depression

Frustration

I feel like when I was younger I had an Idea of where I was gonna be when I was in my twenties. Today, 90% of my friends have kids. So its hard to ask any of them to come over and hang out because they don’t have babysitters. The other friends I have that don’t have kids, live no where near me.

I wanted to have a family or to be traveling. and I cant have either of those right now. I live paycheck to paycheck. I have a boyfriend, who I love and he doesn’t want to leave Michigan because his grandma is still alive and I understand that. But I long for adventure, I want to go to Ireland or Iceland, I want to travel the world. I want to go. I want to live a better life, I want to make new friends, I just want more.

I want excitement and not routine right now. I think if I had a child right now, it wouldnt be such a big deal. I think I’d still want excitement and adventure, but I’d have a different kind of adventure.

I love my friends and I love their kids.

But I need a best friend by my side

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