918...no, make that 919 entries to date
Jan. 6th, 2009 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaunthieSince starting this LJ back in 2005, I've posted here 919 times.
How do I know this?
I've just downloaded LJ Archive, an open-source tool that allows you to back up and read your LiveJournal. I now have a backup of the first 918 entries, and can sync the backup to capture any new posts. The tool is cute, fairly easy to intuit (which is a little more than I can say for SourceForge's interface, although to be fair they're getting slammed right now), and gives me a nice sense of security about having all my entries backed up locally where I can keep them forever, should I so desire. It doesn't display my LJ in my theme, but it looks like I maybe could tweak it enough to do so, or at least a reasonable approximation, if I wanted to put in the effort.
Backing up data is a good thing, but outside of the old cut-and-paste method on some important-at-the-time entries, I haven't backed up my journal until now. Then came the news that LiveJournal fired 12 of their 28 staff members today with no severance. That's not as bad as originally reported (the original reports suggested 20 of the 28 were gone), but given my manifestly non-impressed feelings about the new ownership, it was enough to send me scurrying for a way to save my posts, just in case.
So yeah, better safe than sorry, and an old geek like me should have been backing up the data long ago. It's done now, and I suggest to any of you who might have similar concerns that you consider downloading the tool and do the same. LJ's own "Archive" feature only works as an archive, not a reader - and depends on LJ being around to use it.
Let's hope this is all a tempest in a teapot, and that nothing too dire is in the works.
How do I know this?
I've just downloaded LJ Archive, an open-source tool that allows you to back up and read your LiveJournal. I now have a backup of the first 918 entries, and can sync the backup to capture any new posts. The tool is cute, fairly easy to intuit (which is a little more than I can say for SourceForge's interface, although to be fair they're getting slammed right now), and gives me a nice sense of security about having all my entries backed up locally where I can keep them forever, should I so desire. It doesn't display my LJ in my theme, but it looks like I maybe could tweak it enough to do so, or at least a reasonable approximation, if I wanted to put in the effort.
Backing up data is a good thing, but outside of the old cut-and-paste method on some important-at-the-time entries, I haven't backed up my journal until now. Then came the news that LiveJournal fired 12 of their 28 staff members today with no severance. That's not as bad as originally reported (the original reports suggested 20 of the 28 were gone), but given my manifestly non-impressed feelings about the new ownership, it was enough to send me scurrying for a way to save my posts, just in case.
So yeah, better safe than sorry, and an old geek like me should have been backing up the data long ago. It's done now, and I suggest to any of you who might have similar concerns that you consider downloading the tool and do the same. LJ's own "Archive" feature only works as an archive, not a reader - and depends on LJ being around to use it.
Let's hope this is all a tempest in a teapot, and that nothing too dire is in the works.
