The Import & Export feature in Blogger is now live and can be accessed from the Settings tab of your Blogger dashboard.
With "Export Blog," you can easily create a complete backup of your Blogger blog on to the hard drive and this may come handy in situations when you accidentally delete some old blog post or if Google blocks your blog due to policy violations – at least you’ll have a local copy of all the content that you may publish elsewhere.
Other that creating a safe backup, you may also use the export (followed by import) function to merge multiple blogs into one.
Important: The XML file created by Blogger is not compatible with external blogging platforms so if you like to move blogs from Blogger to WordPress, use the built-in import function available inside WordPress.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/backup-your-blogger-blog/5984/
Reader Comments
Amit this time you got it quite late. It’s been over an month this service was introduced
Written by monik on 12.11.08
old story
Written by Krishna on 12.11.08
The feature has been available for some time but it was part of draft.blogger.com and not on the main blogger.com site.
Written by Amit on 12.11.08
While exporting blog, we are not able to chose posts.
It may be problem to export all posts, when there are many.
Written by Techcreeze on 12.11.08
hi,
a lot of my friend here lost their blogspot account recently.They claimed Google has remove their account without any valid reason.
Is google affected by this financial crisis and want to save space also haha.
So better save your blog now
Written by lankapo on 12.12.08
Is there any file size limit on import or export?
This is a really important feature, good to see it available in regular Blogger besides Blogger Draft.
Written by Mike Chelen on 12.16.08
I recently read an article about converting wordpress to PDF format.Is this possible in blogger now??
Written by gracelyne on 12.17.08
@gracelyne
It is possible to use an RSS to PDF converter like FeedJournal or Tabbloid to convert any blog to PDF. If this were not available then yes, the new feature would help, it would still require a little tweaking though since the XML export is formatted for Blogger.
Written by Mike Chelen on 12.17.08
Thanks for the info on Export Blog…….I am going to use this for my backup
Written by ArabBible on 02.05.09