It is always a good idea to have your blogs backed up, as you have spent so much precious time in writing or doing the researches for your post content. Keeping a complete blog back up locally offers much more than disaster recovery:

• Rebuild your blog instantly when your server hard drive crashes
• Migrate your blog to another server or host when the original blog host is shutting down, no longer maintained or deteriorates in terms of service quality, just like in the case of Microsoft shutting down Windows Live Spaces
• Set up additional mirror blogs for more exposure and web traffics
• Browse your blog posts even when you are offline

When it comes to backing up your blog, it’s an extremely simple process with WebStory. You have two ways of doing blog backup with WebStory, i.e.:

1. Perform the blog back up when you set up your blog account, as explained here: http://webstory.my/support/how-to/add-a-blog-account/#blogbackup
2. Back up your blog via the Backup Blog menu, which will be explained in the following section.

Perform Regular Blog Backup

To back up a blog after your blog account has been set up, you may access the Blog Backup menu as shown below:

Then a Blog Backup window will appear, proceed to select the blogs that you want to back up now and click Next:

Then you will get to specify more specific options about current blog backup, as explained below:

Post Options:

• All - back up all existing posts
• Skip – skip blog posts backup for now, which may be useful if you only want to back up other content, such as WordPress Pages or Comments
• Only last – back up only the last “X” number of posts, useful for users who sometimes write blogs at the server, and would like to back up latest content to WebStory for safekeeping

Page Options (supports WordPress only)

• This option is only effective for WordPress blogs
• All – back up all existing WordPress pages
• Skip – skip page backup for now
• Only last – back up only the last “X” number of pages, useful for users who sometimes create pages at the server, and would like to back up latest content to WebStory for safekeeping

Comment Options (supports WordPress and Blogger.com only)

• This option is only effective for WordPress and Blogger.com blogs
• All – back up all existing comments
• Skip – skip comment backup for now
• Only last – back up only the last “X” number of comments
• Note: Even if you don’t back up your WordPress or Blogger.com comments regularly, the comments on the server will still be fetched to your local database every now and then

Repeated Entry Options

• This option will determine what happens if the same content already exists in the database during blog backup
• Overwrite – if the same post, page or comment already exists in the database, it will be overwritten
• Skip – if the same post, page or comment already exists in the database, it will not be saved again

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