When I gave up teaching History, I switched over to teaching ICT (Information Communication Technology). One of the things that we had to try to get out students to understand was the need to always have a back-up copy of everything that they did ... just in case. Almost all of them saw no need to do so ... until that fateful day when something was inadvertently erased.
I have always tried to practice what I have preached, and I do keep both an electronic and a hard copy of all of my blog entries. I know that this sounds somewhat anally retentive, but on at least one occasion it has meant that entries that were 'lost' could be recovered.
Yesterday I took the process one step further and created an online back-up of this blog. I chose a different blog host – WordPress – to ensure that if Blogger was not available for some reason, I could continue to blog. The back-up is also called Wargaming Miscellany, and I have imported the entire contents of my blog to it.
An interesting by-product of this duplication is the difference in onscreen appearance of both versions of the blog ... and I don't just mean differences in font and colour scheme. For example the WordPress version of my blog has an iPad-friendly display that presents the blog in the same way as an app is displayed and this is very different from the way the same blog appears on Blogger.
I have always tried to practice what I have preached, and I do keep both an electronic and a hard copy of all of my blog entries. I know that this sounds somewhat anally retentive, but on at least one occasion it has meant that entries that were 'lost' could be recovered.
Yesterday I took the process one step further and created an online back-up of this blog. I chose a different blog host – WordPress – to ensure that if Blogger was not available for some reason, I could continue to blog. The back-up is also called Wargaming Miscellany, and I have imported the entire contents of my blog to it.
An interesting by-product of this duplication is the difference in onscreen appearance of both versions of the blog ... and I don't just mean differences in font and colour scheme. For example the WordPress version of my blog has an iPad-friendly display that presents the blog in the same way as an app is displayed and this is very different from the way the same blog appears on Blogger.
How exactly do you go about doing that, making a copy your blog?
ReplyDeleteItinerant,
ReplyDeleteUntil this morning I would have said that it was simple ... but I have now discovered that during the process of transferring the contents of my Blogger blog to WordPress some posts were lost, some duplicated, some re-formatted, and some 'lost' the comments that had been made.
What is SUPPOSED to happen is as follows: you set up your new blog and using the 'Tools' you 'Import' the contents of your blog over to WordPress.
I am not sure that the problem is at the WordPress end of things, as the Internet connection I use keeps being interrupted for some reason. It may well be that this is the reason for the duplication etc.
All the best,
Bob
In blogger's settings you can specify a different "app-style"view when viewed via a mobile device.
ReplyDeleteSteve,
ReplyDeleteI had missed that! Thanks for sharing that we me and the other regular blog readers.
All the best,
Bob