This LJ Backup Issue ...

If the servers go under tomorrow, I guess I'll just kiss my LJs goodbye. I've just spent a headachey 45 minutes attempting to find and/or download things that purport to do backups on Mac OS X (including the "platform independent" things), and have done several downloads, all of which are now in my trashcan because none of them looked anything like anything I've ever tried to make run on a Mac. And I *have* downloaded and used Mac shareware, thankyouverymuch. I think LJArchive download is just the Windows versions of that product, even though they are labeled platform-independent - heck, one of 'em is a blessed DLL file.

> sigh <

I do have backups of my stories and reviews, because I write them out ahead of time in a text editor. That includes a complete HTML-formatted version of the big new story.

ETA: I wonder if the action of thousands of backup clients crawling through LJ entries will bring the servers down tonight ... .

LJ Backups for Mac - All Better Now!!

I had a beneficent visitation ... oyceter dropped by and told me about ljdump. All I needed to do was edit the little config file in my text editor and then run the thing from Terminal. It was pretty fast, too! It backs up the entries, comments, and the Userpic picture info (but not the pictures themselves ... names, descriptions, and path names to the files on LJ's server). I checked the XML files for a few entries - yup, there they are!