This TOTD explains how to back up your blog posts hosted on
Roller-based installations. The
instructions are borrowed from Rich's
original
post.

1. Download
   
   blogapps-examples (1.0.4 as of this writing).
2. Go to the directory blogapps-examples-1.0.4\java and invoke
   ant.
3. Go to blogapps-examples-1.0.4\java\ex02\dist\grabber
   directory and edit config.properties to match your settings. My
   config file looks like:
   
   
   
   
   download_dir=./bsc_saved<br>
blog_apitype=metaweblog<br>
blog_username=arungupta<br>
blog_password=&lt;my password&gt;<br>
blog_id=arungupta<br>
blog_url=http://blogs.sun.com/roller-services/xmlrpc<br>
max_entries=1000
4. If you are running behind a firewall, add proxy host and port
   information to Grabber.bat as:
   
   
   
   
   java -Dhttp.proxyHost=<proxy host> -Dhttp.proxyPort=<proxy port> -classpath
%_cp_% com.manning.blogapps.extra02.Grabber %1 %2 %3
5. And run the script Grabber.bat.

All the blog entries are locally stored in the directory specified in

There are multiple directories in my blog resources. Moreover I'd like to
link the resources to my backed up blog posts as well. So
backing
up resources seems like a slightly more involved process so I'll try that
later. Otherwise Grabber is very cool and convenient for those in-flight and
airport lounge times :)

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