I’m an oldie who used to use Semagic but I haven’t done a backup in a while and I believe Semagic doesn’t work anymore. Let me pitch this to the crowd.
as far as i know there’s no great way to do it right now, though I would ask over on DW, they would have a better idea. iirc they do intend to build a native backup tool in the future but I probably read that in, like 2013, so it’s worth asking about again.
Wait they have a native exporter now??? Holy crap I had no idea that was a thing. The fact that it’s CSV/XML sucks but dang I’ll take it over nothing. Thanks @brin-bellway, this is gonna come in super handy for me.
Anyway as far as comments go I actually just use my email as an archive. Not ideal but it’s better than nothing. (You can also get your own comments emailed to you.) There might be a tool that does still work with DW but if there is I don’t know it, unfortunately.
I appreciate the effort, but I think we cross-posted. I just figured out how to fix the access-lock problem with wget [link].
I hope you find it handy too! :)
:’) i saw it about three seconds after i posted. the world is funny sometimes.
i’ll give that a shot too! i’ve never tried wget but what better time than now to learn.
Tags:
#(December 2018) #conversational aglets #Dreamwidth #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers
Brinens and Things 
One thought on “brin-bellway asked: Do you know of any good ways to backup a DW blog? So far, I have investigated: built-in exporter (doesn’t include comments); wget (doesn’t include access-locked posts); LJMigrate (gives an HTTP 307 error, which I have no idea how to deal with); most other tools on the list of DW-compatible LJ archivers (aren’t available at all anymore); printing every post to PDF and re-printing the relevant post with every new comment (severe, ongoing tedium).”