back-ups

[florentinescot]

One more question, and I'll go away for a while .....

I use LJ Archive for backing up in that other place. Well, I'm here now. Is there a tool to back-up this journal? Will LJ Archive work here?

Thanks!

Comments

[lurkingcat]

Yes it does :) I can't remember how I got it to work but I think it's as simple as starting a new archive and ticking the Alternate Server checkbox and pointing it at www.dreamwidth.org.

[florentinescot]

Thanks. I was hoping that would work!

[morgandawn]

LJ Archive does not work - but if you get it to work, please post your path. lots of interest in this one.

[florentinescot]

It looks like it would be an interesting thing to find out who it works for and who it doesn't -- are the differences on the user's end? All XP -- all Vista, etc -- or are the differences on DWs end -- all original journals -- all imports from LJ .....

[morgandawn]

nods. I tired on both xp and vista. will need to try it on a dw only journal since mine is imported from lj.

[florentinescot]

You'll have to let us know what you find out.

[morgandawn]

it didn't work. neither on xp or vista. so right now imported DW as well as brand/fresh dw = no go for LJ archive.

[florentinescot]

well, bummer. :-(

[liv]

I had no problems getting it to work; all I did was:

File > New Archive

Type in my username (liv) and password.

Tick the "Alternate Server" box and typed http://www.dreamwidth.org

Click "finish".
Then I used Tools > Sync with absolutely no problems; I've set it to update automatically when I run the program.

Data: I didn't import my LJ journal, so this was a clean journal on DW. My journal is not and never has been huge (I had about a thousand entries from 6 years of LJ, about a fifth of that in the year and a half I've been using DW). I rarely use any special characters or font encodings, Latin-extended covers nearly everything I need to type. My username doesn't have any underscores or punctuation in it. I am using WinXP on a Toshiba laptop, and I connect to the internet via domestic wireless with no proxies or firewalls.

I know some people have had real problems, particularly with very large imported journals or ones that use a mix of character sets. But it's hard to pinpoint exactly why it works for some and not others.

[zvi]

LJ Archive sometimes works here. There've been a few users who imported from LJ who had it stop working for them.

The list of Dreamwidth compatible clients is a good place to get stared figuring out what will work here for you.

[florentinescot]

Thank you so much!