We answer questions from bloggers all the time… One of the most persistant ones is “How do I back up the content on Blogger?”. So being the techno geeks we are, we noticed some documentation about a little plugin for Firefox named ScrapBook. We downloaded it, tested it, and gave it a real workout. And you know what? This works for every social website we surfed!
ScrapBook is a good way to keep all that data you have on any number of sites safe with a local copy that your online backup can automatically archive for you. With one program! No installing plugins, jockeying around on the command line… It just saves it so you can recover if they go bad on you.
How you ask? Follow along and do it the easy way.
A First, go to the ScrapBook download page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427). Click the Install Now button (green) and restart Firefox when instructed.
B Once Firefox has restarted, you’re ready to use ScrapBook.
C Surf somewhere you’d like to scrapbook. When your there, click “Capture Page As” on the menu.
D “Capture Page As” will let you pick the link depth you’d like to archive. This is a important! This is how all the links on your page get automatically backed up. You wouldn’t be able to copy those extra pages if the depth is set to zero. If it was set to 1, you’d be able to. But if it were set to 2, you would have saved all the secondary pages, etc.
E After you’ve selected the different options, click Capture. You’ve now saved a copy on your computer! Now, go to the ScrapBook menu and click Show in Sidebar. You can now see the captured page list.
So this is what we’ve got so far? You now have a local copy of all the content on your Squidoo, etc. page. So if anything goes south, your covered. But like Billy Mays always says… “But Wait, there’s More”.
If you have a backup to internet product like OPENRSM on your computer just make sure that it’s configuration has your personal files selected for backup. This way all your computers essential files are backed up and your social website content is too. And Firefox runs on windows, Mac, and Linux all the same. Not only will your computer have a full backup to internet, but your social websites will be too.
