How to Backup your Tumblr

I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +6k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search. 

Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog* 

*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted.  Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat. 

I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing: 

1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month) 2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog) 3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it) 4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not) 5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)

**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted. 

So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes. 

P.S. I didn’t have any issue, but to be on the safe side always check for spyware and virus threats before and after downloading anything. 

fyi if you want this to go very very fast and more want a record of your text than anything else, the flag “-k” at the command line section will refrain from downloading images when backing up, which is mainly what would make it take a long time to do a backup + make said backup huge, data-wise. it makes the program link to the image files instead of downloading them

my archive would probably be several GB but instead it’s just several MB this way lol

Because I’m a nerd who reads the details of everything I sign, here’s a few pointers about the new tumblr guidelines:

Traditional art and writing is still allowed via the new guidelines, just not photos and videos of real folk being “inappropriate”. So if your nsfw drawings or fic get flagged, just appeal and you should be fine.

And anything that gets flagged will not be deleted, they will just automatically become “private” so only you can see them.

And they are not deleting anyone’s blogs. If you have a nsfw blog that is labeled as such in your settings, all they will do is make all your content private and unsearchable, and hide your avatar and possibly your username if those are considered inappropriate as well. They don’t want to lose their user base so, rather than delete you, they want to give you a chance to turn your blog around and start posting safe content.

Don’t panic. Don’t delete anything. Just breathe and take this a day at a time.

if I see anyone posting anything that isnt catholic stained glass photos after the 17th I’m reporting you to the staff on sight

December 17 Tumblr Become Catholic

Team Juggernaut’s first member was illegally acquired way before houndour actually showed up in any dungeons, as a team-joining client so on a whim I named her Orisa because she started out as a sort of protector while Anatolia was still a small egg who missed 60% of the time

mega! 

(x)

Sebastian-

Making a new sidebar image

a video i made to cope with myself

source

The replies on this tweet are killing me. B y e

Holy crap he’s real!!!

Big fella.

Reblog for Gains

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WAYNE // @masonlindroth’s HYLICS

Commission for @silenthillcoffeebeans but I owe a lot of my own inspiration to Mason Lindroth’s art. Hylics is available on Steam (go get it) and Hylics 2 is coming.

creepers + an enderman

This is a pure and wholesome game

Really.

every time Pokemon releases a remake of the Kanto region, I’m allowed to reblog this