Livejournal backup

[pbray]

Anyone recommendations for a livejournal backup program?

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[libwitch.livejournal.com]

ljarchive, available on sourceforge (but just so you know, its not quite that dire. 13/30; not 20/28 were laid off).

[janni.livejournal.com]

I've been using ljarchive.

But the not-quite-that dire is good to know--I don't wanna leave! :-)

[reannon.livejournal.com]

What about a Mac-friendly one?

[janni.livejournal.com]

There has to be one, but I don't know where--several folks I know have been asking, so if you find one, do let us know!

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

I just used LJ's own archive download, which took about 15 minutes to download 4 years, so not too bad. I'm on a Mac, so would also appreciate any advice. autopope commented on a program called Python, but I couldn't get it to work properly...

[mcurry.livejournal.com]

There are some Mac-friendly ideas at http://bryant.livejournal.com/659249.html (http://bryant.livejournal.com/659249.html)

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thanks for another vote on ljarchive. I definitely don't want to leave either, but having backups is never a bad idea.

[music-lover3.livejournal.com]

Where did you hear that it was 13/30 and not 20/28?

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10132684-36.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

and http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/01/06/livejournal-makes-deep-personnel-cuts
which has an add-on provided by an anon LJ employee - which I am still going to trust more then Gawker - and the official press release.

[music-lover3.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recommendation on ljarchive.

Glad to hear that it's not quite as dire, but still, making a backup is a good general idea.

[fabunobo.livejournal.com]

I downloaded ljarchive. It runs for several hours and then bombs out. I've tried about five times. My journal is quite large. I've been on lj since about 2001 or so and post several times per day. I'm so afraid of losing my journal!

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

I haven't been around that long, but I had a fairly large journal I think - over a 1000 entries and more then that in comments and replies. It might just be because everyone is in a panic and trying to get to it right now.

[bluedahlia.livejournal.com]

Please excuse my butting into your thread but you came up when I googled 'livejournal backup'. I've just backed up my original journal (I think successfully). Do you know how I would go about backing up my comm. I seem to run into difficulty when putting in a username and password?

I'm also opening a support ticket but god knows when I'll get a response to that. Any advice would be much appreciated. Or even if you could point me in the direction of someone else who could help.

Thanks muchly ♥

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Alas the only advice I have is that you'll need to use a program-- respondents to my original LJ post suggest ljarchive from sourceforge. Here's the link to their website http://fawx.com/software/ljarchive/ It's not clear to me whether or not this would back up communities.

[bluedahlia.livejournal.com]

Thanks anyway. :) I'll just have to continue the hunt.

Sorry for the intrusion. ♥

[katatomic.livejournal.com]

It's not a backup, but it is a possible substitute if things go "blooey!": I crosspost everything on WordPress. It's free, and there's an open-source downloadable version (with auto crossposting) that works on pretty much any platform as well as the online version. Fewer bells and whistles, and it doesn't have the community and FList structure, but it's stable as hell.