Creating backups of entire blogs!!!

Creating backups for your blogs is about the most valuable thing to do to make sure your blog is protected from being deleted by Google.

As blogger does not come with an export or download blog function, you can implement these instructions for creating single files with all yourblogs posts. Then you may publish and copy each post to your computer for safe keeping.

Note: If your intention is to continue using your preveous blog, saving a copy of each of your existing template in files on your computer. When the time comes, having your blog at hand on your computer makes sleeping a lot easier at night.

1. Log into your Blogger account, and switch into template-editing.
2. To make a copy of your blogs template, you will be replacing your Blogger template with the single page template in Step 3, but you probably don't want to lose your original template.
3. Replace your Blogger template with the following (note: you must remove the indentation from the following lines when pasting into your Blogger template):

AUTHOR: <$BlogItemAuthor$>DATE: <$BlogItemDateTime$>-----BODY:<$BlogItemBody$>-------- Optional: If you are using our commenting system, you can choose to export comments along with the posts. If you want to do this, add the following code to your template, just above the tag:
COMMENT-AUTHOR:<$BlogCommentAuthor$>COMMENT-DATE:<$BlogCommentDateTime$>COMMENT-BODY:<$BlogCommentBody$>--------

In Settings Publishing change your Blog Filename to a different filename; this will prevent you from overwriting your main index file. Make a note of your current Blog Filename so you can restore the setting after finishing. [Note: This only applies to users publishing via FTP. Free BlogSpot users will need to overwrite their existing blog page, but it will be replaced as soon as the blog is republished with the original template.]

In Settings Formatting, set your blog to display all of your posts on the main index page. There is no explicit setting for this; instead, you should change the number of days displayed on your front page (Show N days' posts on main page) higher than the number of days that you have been blogging.

In Settings Formatting set Date/Time Format to the format MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AMPM. (Note: the format will not look like this in the menu; instead it will be the current time, formatted.) Make a note of your current setting so you can restore it after finishing.
Also in Settings Formatting set Convert Line Breaks to No.

In Settings Archiving, set Archive Frequency to No Archive. This will prevent your archives from being overwritten with the new template.

Republish your blog; you will end up with a single file with all of your posts, formatted using the above template, at the location specified in your Settings. Open this file in your web browser and save the file to your local hard drive.

Restore the previous settings (Blog filename, archive frequency, timestamp, etc.) in your blog and replace the temporary template with your saved copy. Publish the blog and view the page to check that everything is correct.