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[heidi]

Is there a way to back up a livejournal with all the comments attached?

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[scribbulus-ink.livejournal.com]

Yes: http://www.ljbook.com

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Gwynne's told me about LJArchive before, but I've got LJBook versions of things - you click off all the little boxes and use Acrobat Reader 7 or better, and it's entirely searchable, etc.

(Gotta try that Archive again, though. I must have had some problem with it.)

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Hey, corgi? Lunch, first week of December? Same place as the uncompleted last time?

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

MA'AM YES MA'AM!

As soon as you name the time, it gets plastered into Google Calendar with reminders every hour for a whole day before.

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

That's what I use as well - which reminds me, I need to go update. Early mornings Denmark time is great, because nobody else is online ;)

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

And when I was up in the middle of hte night, I did an update too - you're right, nobody's around.

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

Sometimes living in a different timezone than the majority of the people on the Internet can be an advantage.

When it comes to wanting to be entertained on LJ between 8am and 2pm it's a huge disadvantage.

belatedly...

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[schnoogle.livejournal.com]

There's a site - I think it's LJBook - which will create a PDF of your journal with comments. I don't think there's any way to have the comments backed up in such a way that you can restore them, though.

[djinnj.livejournal.com]

I use LJarchive. It's a bit ugly, and it won't preserve icons in comments, but it does the job and is searchable which is handy.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

same here. i love icons, but in the end it's the text i'm interested in, and i use the search function all the time to find old posts, arguments, etc...

[kerryblaze.livejournal.com]

Me too. I love it. The search function is great.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That's what I use as well. Saves your journal and comments, plus is searchable. It's totally free, too.

Does the job for me.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Thirding LJarchive. It's much friendlier in the long run than LJBook, and it gives you the option to save your journal(s) as HTML files after the fact. While it's true that there are no icons in comments, it does format comments correctly (something LJBook doesn't do).

Also, if you're a community maintainer, it allows you to back those up as well. It's far from intuitive but you're not going to have any trouble with it.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Honestly? I do it the low-tech way and add to my collection of screen-scrapes of journal pages every six months or so. (Save Page As, HTML only.) Sure, it means I don't back up new comments on long-ago threads, and it was a royal pain when I started for the first time and had to save about 200 pages - practically impossible, given the value of your time, for someone with 3,700+ entries. Better than nothing, though.

I may well investigate ljArchive, as per djinnj above; the only reason why I didn't in the past was because I didn't have .NET installed. But I do now, for some other application, so I probably should.