Remember, there’s more to backing up a Tumblr than the posts! Make sure to grab copies of your:
- Drafts (WordPress will include these in their Tumblr export, or you can post them and then use any method that backs up posts, or copy them manually into some notepad program)
- Queue (I don’t *think* WordPress includes these, but there’s still posting them or manual copying; I pretty much never use my queue, so I don’t have any experienced techniques for archiving it)
- Inbox (I paste mine into a Word document: the formatting is a bit off, but it’s still fairly readable, and you can always clean it up)
- Outbox (same method as inbox)
- PM logs (I separate these into one Word document per person)
- List of followed blogs, to help you consider which other blogs to archive† or to find elsewhere (there might be a cleverer way to do this, but I simply went through my list and wrote everything down in another Word document; I also included a note of how many there were in total, so I can tell at a glance if any vanish from Tumblr)
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†You don’t need to own a blog to use the tumblr-utils backup method [link] on it.
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