Comments on: Backup Blogsome Posts

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:29:43 +0000

Oh, and expect some issues with extended characters. You’ll notice on this post and the comments attached to it, the errors where extended characters are supposed to be. I can’t be arse fixing all of them. I did some find/replace work to fix a heap, but it was too much work for content that doesn’t get looked at too often.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:28:26 +0000

You’ll want an SQL dump of your blog.

Ask the admin team. You can find The Uvular R in the forums, or rogerg.

You will also need some know-how about how to put this data into a new blog. If you are wanting to go to WordPress.com, then you might struggle. If it is a self-hosted blog, or a proper WordPress install, where you can actually execute SQL commands, then you’ll have better luck

I did this once, a long time ago. I had to massage the data somewhat - the table names were different. If you can’t, find a friendly local database guru to help you. I had about 6 or 7 goes before I got it right. I may have posted on this blog about it, but I don’t think I did.

By: PeTeeR

PeTeeR — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:25:59 +0000

how i could export all of my post including comments from blogsome to wordpress?

By: Matthew Schinckel

Matthew Schinckel — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:31:51 +0000

Hmm, not sure. It’s possible that the XMLRPC interface doesn’t work properly again - I haven’t used ecto or any other client in ages. (Hardly spend any time on the Mac at all now).

I do know that I was having issues with uploading images via ecto some time ago - it could be related.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:10:33 +0000

Hey, sorry to bother you but I thought about backing up my blog recently too and the blogsome-forum lead me here.

I tried using ecto like you described but when I click the Â»refreshÂ«-button ecto says that the answer to Â»metaWeblog.getRecentPostsÂ« could not be described or something and I should look up the Console where it says:

Â»Sorry, the server is too busy to process your request right now. Please try again later.Â«

I tried this several times during the day (I have only 50 posts) and somehow I don’t believe that the server is THAT busyâ€¦

Mh,â€¦ anyway I would really be glad if you’d have any suggestions. Thanks!

By: Matthew Schinckel

Matthew Schinckel — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:05:06 +0000

Have you set it to download more posts than you have written? Not sure where to set this in the Win version, but under Mac it’s under Preferences…, Recent Entries.

By: doctorfrog

doctorfrog — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:24:17 +0000

Shoot, it was an elementary error on my part (that took me 2 hours to figure out). I was putting the wrong URL for the admin API. *smack*

Now, if only ecto could retrieve all my posts, instead of a random scattering of about ten of them.

By: Matthew Schinckel

Matthew Schinckel — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:08:36 +0000

I can guarantee it does work, at least with ecto for Mac.

You may need to make sure you have the settings correct: in the Accounts section, make sure MetaWebLog is chosen.

By: doctorfrog

doctorfrog — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 03:42:28 +0000

Hope this gets a reply… I don’t think the current version of ecto works with Blogsome, or else the backend has been modified not to work with it. I get an error which states: “Response from server does not contain valid XML.” An internet search revealed that the version of WordPress Blogsome uses may be in need of updating, something I obviously can’t do. Are there any alternatives?

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:40:19 +0000

To answer your first commenter, the terms of service are only to protect us against any disaster. We do not have any plans to upset users. We have been going for over a year and haven’t lost any users posts (that we know of).

Regards,
Roger