Comments on: A Quick and Easy Way to Back Up Posterous with Automator

By: Petr Fischer

Petr Fischer — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:16:00 +0000

If you have a Mac, you can use this simple tool: http://itunes.apple.com/cz/app/posterous-backup/id415889466?mt=12

By: Ken Clark

Ken Clark — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:36:00 +0000

Thanks!

By: Ken Clark

Ken Clark — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:42:00 +0000

If you were going to use Automator, yes that would be the way to do it. However, with that volume of sites I wouldn’t use Automator. It’s a lot more efficient to write a shell script or Perl script, etc. to do the work.

By: Blogsupport

Blogsupport — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:56:00 +0000

Hi, thanks for that post. Let’s say, you have more than 10 blogs! Would you use automator for that and design 10 workflows?

By: Guillermo Garron

Guillermo Garron — Mon, 10 May 2010 05:42:27 +0000

yes, I did that way..
Seems to be working, of course to put all that info into wordpress or Drupal is another story

By: Ken Clark

Ken Clark — Mon, 10 May 2010 05:30:31 +0000

Been a while since I toyed around on the command line, but it should be pretty simple — conceptually you would use curl or lynx to pull the source of the page down and then redirect the output into a text file. Then set that up as a cron job say daily, and you have a regular backup.

By: Guillermo Garron

Guillermo Garron — Sat, 08 May 2010 06:36:07 +0000

Great info.. thanks! I was wondering how to do it.
I do not have a Mac, but I am almost sure I will be able to do it with wget or curl from my Linux.
you point me in the right direction.

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