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Keeping your Social Web Backed Up

We get questions from bloggers all the time… The most common one is “How do I backup pages on TypePad?”.  So being the web guys we are, we checked out some documentation about a nice plugin for Firefox named ScrapBook.  We installed it and put it to the test. And, you know? This works for every Web 2.0 we surfed!

ScrapBook is a new way to keep all that stuff you have on any number of sites safe with a local copy that your online backup can automatically archive for you. With one program! No command line this, install plugin that, it just saves it so you can put the pieces back together if any of them should go bad on you.

How you are wondering? Follow along and do it the easy way.

A First, go to the ScrapBook download page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427). Just click the green Install Now button and then restart Firefox when it tells you to.

B Once Firefox has restarted, you’re ready to use ScrapBook.

C Go to a website you’d like to save with ScrapBook. When your there, click “Capture Page As” on the menu.

D Use “Capture Page As” to set the depth of links you want to copy. This is a important! This is how all the links on your page get automatically backed up. If you had the depth set to 0 (zero), you wouldn’t be able to copy those extra pages. You’d be able to if it’s set to 1. But if it were set to 2, you would have saved all the secondary pages, etc.

E After you’ve selected the different options, click Capture. It’s now saved on your computer! Now, go to the ScrapBook menu and click Show in Sidebar. You can now see the captured page list.

To review, here’s what we have so far? You now have a local copy of all the content on your FaceBook, etc. page. So if anything goes south, your covered. But just like Ron Popiel says… “But wait, we’re not done yet”.

If you have a online backup product like OPENRSM on your computer just make sure that it’s configuration has your personal files selected for backup. That way you can have all your social websites backed up and preserved with the rest of your computers essential data. And Firefox runs on windows, Mac, and Linux all the same.  Not only will your computer have a full featured internet attached storage backup, but your social websites will be too.

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