So, backing up LJ

[wraithfodder]

Was on Twitter when I tripped over posts such as http://www.metafilter.com/164293/LiveJournal-represents-social-media-without-borders talking about US/Russian stuff and Live Journal.

I do need to back up LJ. Eons behind on that. I hear Dreamwidth is good, but is there a way to backup everything, post, photos AND comments that other folk make?

Thanks!

Comments

[aelfgyfu_mead]

dr_tectonic describes it in this post. It's really simple. I've had a DW journal for a while now and periodically back up there. It doesn't keep my many icons because I don't have them at DW, but it does keep posts, photos, and all comments. (It changes commenters' ID to OpenID if they don't have DW, but you can still tell who it is: you can see an example from my own imported post here.)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Now to just make time to do it. Hmm, will put it on calendar.