As of July 1, backing up your blog on Blogger uses Google Takeout and includes every Blogger-related file in your account at once.
Takeout offers some new options including
- ability to schedule bimonthly backups
- ability to back up to Drive and other cloud services
- ability to back up multiple blogs at once
It's not all great, but on balance provides more functionality than before.
I've published a preliminary guide to the new Blogger backup.
Google has also revised its help page for backup and restore to reflect the change.
Broken record reminder
You should back up your active blogs regularly.
I've just tried it and it worked. Though it did ask the size of the backup and it said 2GB! That seems huge, does it back-up all the uploaded photos too?
ReplyDeleteI only ever backed-up the template and contents to a certain folder once in a blue moon.
Thanks for posting about this Adam, btw.
Yes, "every Blogger-related file in your account." And you only need two of those files per blog for backup and restore.
DeleteDetails in my linked post. I'm also planning to share how I will be using this, in case that gives anyone ideas.
Did this change the restore functionality? I tried to restore via xml file converted from wordpress blogs and it's been 30 mins.. still no now blogs appeared in my list.
ReplyDeleteBlogger has never been able to import WordPress xml, only Blogger xml. They are different!
DeleteThis change did fix a longstanding bug that caused some large Blogger xml restores to fail. And Blogger xml is still supported.
So if you can convert WP to Blogger somehow, Blogger could read the file.