Tumblr Backup That Works

It would be nice to have some more details about precisely what this does; is the backup a zip archive, or something that can be directly imported into Wordpress but not Posterous... or something else entirely? And is this a one-time backup, or for the life of the blog? (I presume the latter from the pricing per blog).

Looks good and has me interested though, that's half the battle :)

Re: Tumblr Backup That Works

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Post by mootothemax » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 4:26 PM UTC

aw3c2 wrote: post #2

If that works with the high price I will be surprised.

Do you have a Tumblr blog? If so, what price would you pay to back it up?

If the answer is "No" to the first, or an equivalent of "free" to the second, why bother saying that the price is too high? Surely we should only advise on prices when it's for something that we would actually like to buy?

Re: Tumblr Backup That Works

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Post by Kique » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 4:35 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #3

Does the official Tumblr backup app not work? Why?

I've never had the chance to try it since there isn't a Windows version.

Re: Tumblr Backup That Works

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Post by jlind » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 4:45 PM UTC

mootothemax wrote: post #4

It would be nice to have some more details about precisely what this does; is the backup a zip archive, or something that can be directly imported into Wordpress but not Posterous... or something else entirely? And is this a one-time backup, or for the life of the blog? (I presume the latter from the pricing per blog). Looks good and has me interested though, that's half the battle :)

If it's for the life of the blog, I don't think anyone would have a problem paying a one-time fee. I'd also be interested in hearing if you can import posts back into Tumblr as well. (This would be useful for people who want to clone a secondary blog into a primary)

EDIT: Based on the signup page[1], there are a handful of steps that likely represent what you'll do when you backup the blog. They seem to indicate more of a one-and-done process.

[1]http://tumblr.downstreamapp.com/sign-up/

Re: Tumblr Backup That Works

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Post by ZackOfAllTrades » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 5:04 PM UTC

Feature that would be useful: When tumblr goes down, redirect to the backup pages automatically. Sort of like a just in case for tumblr. Would be worth the money for most businesses, and would require very little investment in terms of hosting. Spin up a bunch of amazon servers or something and throw it all up on there. Spin down when things have settled down for an hour or two.

Re: Tumblr Backup That Works

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Post by aw3c2 » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 5:05 PM UTC

mootothemax wrote: post #5

aw3c2 wrote: post #2

If that works with the high price I will be surprised.

Do you have a Tumblr blog? If so, what price would you pay to back it up? If the answer is "No" to the first, or an equivalent of "free" to the second, why bother saying that the price is too high? Surely we should only advise on prices when it's for something that we would actually like to buy?

Yes and I back it up myself by simple wgetting it every now and then.

I was not saying it was too high, I simply consider it quite high. It would be too high for me, that is more than I pay for hosting (other site) monthly.

Re: Tumblr Backup That Works

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Post by cing » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 5:06 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #3

Does the official Tumblr backup app not work? Why?

I have 2000 image posts on my Tumblr and the Tumblr Backup App gives the cryptic error: "Error during backup: API request failed. Please check your internet connection or try again". If I try to back-up a different tumblr with only 100 text-posts it continues without any problem.