Two Ways to Back Up your Blogger Blog

Google blogger blog is one of the top free blogging platforms with very nice blogging tools. Backing up your blogger blog is very important as it helps you to not to lose data just incase anything happens to your blog or you plan to migrate from blogger to another platform say wordpress or joomla.
If your blog is deleted and you did not back up the templates and posts, you will end up loosing everything but If you did back up then you can always recover everything.

Must Read : How to restore a deleted blog on blogger

Now there are two ways to backup your blogger blog, the first will help you back up your template and posts and the second will help you back up your posts and comments, so i will show you how to go about them one after the other.

1. How to back up your blogger Template

It is very necessary to back up your template especially when you want to install a new template so that if you encounter an error in anyway and want your old template back, you can easily get it. Follow the steps below to successfully back up your blogger template :

• Log in to your dashboard
• Select the drop down menu and click on Template

• Then click on Back up/Restore on the upper right of your screen as shown in the screenshot below : 

 

A pop up box will appear, click on "download full template" as shown below :

Then save the file and you are good.

This process back up your template but not the complete data so if you want to back up the complete data, follow the steps as shown below :

• Log into your dashboard
• Click on the drop down menu and select settings
• From the other list under the settings menu, click on "others"
• Then click on the export blog option from the settings window as shown below :

•  Then click on OK and download the xml file. The file contains a complete back up of your template and data, this way you have everything you need.

Must Read : How to customize yor blogger mobile template

2 . How to Back up your Blogger blog Posts and Comments using Google Takeout

This is another good way of backing up your blog as it backs up your blog posts and comments totally. Follow the steps below to do this :

• Log on to Google Takeout , use the same e-mail address and password you are using for your blogger account
• Click on "Choose services" tab as shown below 

• Then select a your service which is blogger by clicking on the blogger tab but if you want to back up other services, you can click on them too.

• Click on "Configure", select your desired back up option and click on "create archive" as shown in the screenshot below :

• Wait for the progress bar to finish loading and then click on the download button.
   
• Remember to verify your password if you are asked to do so, then save the zip folder.

 Thats it, you are good. I hope this post helps you and please if you encounter any difficulty, feel free to use the comment box. 

Google blogger blog is one of the top free blogging platforms with very nice blogging tools. Backing up your blogger blog is very important as it helps you to not to lose data just incase anything happens to your blog or you plan to migrate from blogger to another platform say wordpress or joomla.
If your blog is deleted and you did not back up the templates and posts, you will end up loosing everything but If you did back up then you can always recover everything.

Must Read : How to restore a deleted blog on blogger

Now there are two ways to backup your blogger blog, the first will help you back up your template and posts and the second will help you back up your posts and comments, so i will show you how to go about them one after the other.

1. How to back up your blogger Template

It is very necessary to back up your template especially when you want to install a new template so that if you encounter an error in anyway and want your old template back, you can easily get it. Follow the steps below to successfully back up your blogger template :

• Log in to your dashboard
• Select the drop down menu and click on Template

• Then click on Back up/Restore on the upper right of your screen as shown in the screenshot below : 

 

A pop up box will appear, click on "download full template" as shown below :

Then save the file and you are good.

This process back up your template but not the complete data so if you want to back up the complete data, follow the steps as shown below :

• Log into your dashboard
• Click on the drop down menu and select settings
• From the other list under the settings menu, click on "others"
• Then click on the export blog option from the settings window as shown below :

•  Then click on OK and download the xml file. The file contains a complete back up of your template and data, this way you have everything you need.

Must Read : How to customize yor blogger mobile template

2 . How to Back up your Blogger blog Posts and Comments using Google Takeout

This is another good way of backing up your blog as it backs up your blog posts and comments totally. Follow the steps below to do this :

• Log on to Google Takeout , use the same e-mail address and password you are using for your blogger account
• Click on "Choose services" tab as shown below 

• Then select a your service which is blogger by clicking on the blogger tab but if you want to back up other services, you can click on them too.

• Click on "Configure", select your desired back up option and click on "create archive" as shown in the screenshot below :

• Wait for the progress bar to finish loading and then click on the download button.
   
• Remember to verify your password if you are asked to do so, then save the zip folder.

 Thats it, you are good. I hope this post helps you and please if you encounter any difficulty, feel free to use the comment box.