Too Clever By Half

Blogger's new backup feature, using Google Takeout, offers more choices about how to safeguard your blog. ¶ 

And, it's a big change. ¶ 

Maybe my story will help you to devise a backup work flow that suits you.

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

Blogger in Draft, Google's beta channel for Blogger, now backs up blog content using Google Takeout. ¶ 

Update: Looks like this is rolling out for everybody now (July 1). Takeout is now the only way to back up blog contents (posts, pages, contents).

Earlier this month, Blogger in Draft gained the ability to import backups downloaded via Takeout. Now, it exports them using Takeout only. ¶ 

If this feature migrates to regular Blogger, it will replace single-file backup.

• Blogger now uses Google Takeout to back up every part of all your blogs at once. ¶ 
• Takeout lets you schedule backups every two months for a year. ¶ 
• You can still back up your theme as a single file. ¶ 
• The Takeout backup will download more data than you need. Extra steps can manage the size of your backup.

One minute.

One minute will save to your hard drive all the posts and pages on your blog, published and in draft. Comments, too.

The same minute will save your blog's theme.
Do I need to say it?