A blogging friend of mine had a blog disaster. Someone hacked into his computer and was able to “see” as he typed in his username and password, and then that low life was somehow able to get in and disable my friend’s blog. Now my friend can’t get into it at all, and had to abandon that blog and start all over from scratch. I can’t imagine how this could have been done, but it happened and it scared me half to death.
I have EIGHT blogs and the thought of them being disabled just made me nauseous. So I’ve spent several days backing everything up. You know, it’s something we should be doing anyway. But it took my friend’s catastrophe to scare me enough that I just had to do it.
So now on my hard drive I have two new folders. In one I’ve saved a copy of every post I have in all the eight blogs, complete with the original date right in the filename. In the second folder I have the html code of every widget and all the bells and whistles on each and every blog. So at least I have the secure feeling of knowing I could re-create each blog should it become necessary.
Why do we wait till disaster strikes before doing the obvious? This is something I “should” have done a long time ago. But you know, you just put it off and put it off, until something happens to scare you enough that you finally go ahead and do it.
I’m saying “you,” but I actually mean “me.” Me the old procrastinator.
Another plus along the way is that I learned a lot while doing it. A couple times I had to do a Google search for information and you know how that is, the information it brings up raises another question and yet another, and by the end of the evening you’ve learned some really good stuff, except that you’ve gotten far away from the original question. So it got my brain a chug-a-lugging and I’m thinking of making a page just on basic tips in html that I’ve found and used successfully.
Well, that’s for another day. I have to spend at least a couple weeks procrastinating before taking on another task. Just wouldn’t feel right otherwise. 
Filed under: Journal | Tagged: backup, blog backup, procrastination
