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Tumblr Backup That Works

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Re: Tumblr Backup That Works

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Post by mapgrep »

I just run this one liner as an hourly cron job, Tumblr doesn't seem to mind. It gets all my images and other Tumblr hosted media, too.

  httrack "http://myhost.tumblr.com" -O "/path/to/tumblr_backup" "+*.media.tumblr.com/*" "+*.myhost.tumblr.com/*" -N100 -I0 -c2 -%c2 --update
(You'll end up with index-2.html as your top level index so you may want to make a symlink to index.html -- add this line to the above shell script:

  ln -s /path/to/tumblr_backup/index-2.html /path/to/tumblr_backup/index.html
...OR make an alias along the same lines in your webserver conf. This is an artifact of telling httrack to exactly mirror the tumblr paths and telling it not to build a generic httrack index file of its own.)

Re: Tumblr Backup That Works

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Post by schaapy »

Thanks for the comments on our Tumblr Backup. Right now we're focusing on one-time backup but will quickly be offering daily/weekly backups not much later.

Yes - we can do this yourself. There's people that feel comfortable doing that but there's many more that don't.

As for Tumblr providing a backup solution, yes they have but it (1) doesn't usually work, (2) only works on a Mac, and (3) still in beta, (4) hasn't been updated since 2009, etc...

@mootothemax - we'll work on providing more details on the site here soon. Thanks for asking for that.

@ZackOfAllTrades - like the idea of providing an automatic site up if/when Tumblr goes down.

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