Blogger Backup

New Post: Back up doesn't start...

joao_pimentel — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:12:54 GMT

and don't forget to move on with image backups...

Really nice app you guys have created

New Post: Back up doesn't start...

joao_pimentel — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:12:54 GMT

and don't forget to move on with image backups...

Really nice app you guys have created

New Post: Back up doesn't start...

joao_pimentel — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:12:54 GMT

and don't forget to move on with image backups...

Really nice app you guys have created

New Post: Back up doesn't start...

gduncan411 — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:09:56 GMT

Glad you figured it out. I love problems that solve themselves... :)

New Post: Back up doesn't start...

gduncan411 — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:09:56 GMT

Glad you figured it out. I love problems that solve themselves... :)

New Post: Back up doesn't start...

gduncan411 — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:09:56 GMT

Glad you figured it out. I love problems that solve themselves... :)

New Post: Back up doesn't start...

joao_pimentel — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:14:23 GMT

Bad configuration on BACKUP FILE NAMING

It's working now :)

Thanks guys, very good application

PS: Include images upload on the next versions...

New Post: Back up doesn't start...

joao_pimentel — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:14:23 GMT

Bad configuration on BACKUP FILE NAMING

It's working now :)

Thanks guys, very good application

PS: Include images upload on the next versions...

New Post: Back up doesn't start...

joao_pimentel — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:14:23 GMT

Bad configuration on BACKUP FILE NAMING

It's working now :)

Thanks guys, very good application

PS: Include images upload on the next versions...

New Post: Back up doesn't start...

joao_pimentel — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:03:55 GMT

I put everything ok, the user ID and credentials, but the buckup doesn't start

It says:
"Saving pots "post name"" but nothing happens!!

Can you kindly help me?

Thank you

João

LOG:
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2012-12-15 20:51:01,297 [1] ERROR BloggerBackup.MainForm - Error in AddItems,selectedOptions.PostNameOptions
System.NullReferenceException: A referência de objecto não foi definida como uma instância de um objecto.
   em BloggerBackup.PathBuilderForm.ShowDialog(IWin32Window owner, AllSaveNameOptions baseSaveOptions, SelectedSaveNameOptions selectedOptions, String blogTitle, String backupPath, ILog log)
2012-12-15 20:51:01,299 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Start ShowExample
2012-12-15 20:51:01,349 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - End ShowExample
2012-12-15 20:51:03,459 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - End ShowDialog
2012-12-15 20:51:03,459 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - CustomPathBuilderButton_Click End
2012-12-15 20:51:08,390 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Starting background processing...
2012-12-15 20:51:08,391 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Determining batch size
2012-12-15 20:51:08,391 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Issuing first query...
2012-12-15 20:51:08,976 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Creating backup folder...
2012-12-15 20:51:08,977 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Setting up output file...
2012-12-15 20:51:08,978 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - The newest post for this blog is 13-12-2012 15:58:28
2012-12-15 20:51:08,979 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Processing batch of 25 posts
2012-12-15 20:51:08,980 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Saving post Rua pedonal, mais capital!
2012-12-15 20:51:47,691 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Starting background processing...
2012-12-15 20:51:47,693 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Determining batch size
2012-12-15 20:51:47,694 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Issuing first query...
2012-12-15 20:51:48,322 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Creating backup folder...
2012-12-15 20:51:48,323 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Setting up output file...
2012-12-15 20:51:48,324 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - The newest post for this blog is 13-12-2012 15:58:28
2012-12-15 20:51:48,325 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Processing batch of 25 posts
2012-12-15 20:51:48,326 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Saving post Rua pedonal, mais capital!
2012-12-15 20:51:55,340 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - CustomPathBuilderButton_Click Start
2012-12-15 20:51:55,343 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Before BuildPath.ShowDialog
2012-12-15 20:51:55,343 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Start ShowDialog
2012-12-15 20:51:58,558 [1] ERROR BloggerBackup.MainForm - Error in AddItems,selectedOptions.FolderNameOptions
System.NullReferenceException: A referência de objecto não foi definida como uma instância de um objecto.
   em BloggerBackup.PathBuilderForm.ShowDialog(IWin32Window owner, AllSaveNameOptions baseSaveOptions, SelectedSaveNameOptions selectedOptions, String blogTitle, String backupPath, ILog log)
2012-12-15 20:51:59,086 [1] ERROR BloggerBackup.MainForm - Error in AddItems,selectedOptions.PostNameOptions
System.NullReferenceException: A referência de objecto não foi definida como uma instância de um objecto.
   em BloggerBackup.PathBuilderForm.ShowDialog(IWin32Window owner, AllSaveNameOptions baseSaveOptions, SelectedSaveNameOptions selectedOptions, String blogTitle, String backupPath, ILog log)
2012-12-15 20:51:59,086 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Start ShowExample
2012-12-15 20:51:59,088 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - End ShowExample
2012-12-15 20:52:09,790 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - End ShowDialog
2012-12-15 20:52:09,790 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - CustomPathBuilderButton_Click End
2012-12-15 20:52:38,273 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Starting background processing...
2012-12-15 20:52:38,274 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Determining batch size
2012-12-15 20:52:38,275 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Issuing first query...
2012-12-15 20:52:38,884 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Creating backup folder...
2012-12-15 20:52:38,886 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Setting up output file...
2012-12-15 20:52:38,887 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - The newest post for this blog is 13-12-2012 15:58:28
2012-12-15 20:52:38,888 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Processing batch of 25 posts
2012-12-15 20:52:38,888 [1] INFO BloggerBackup.MainForm - Saving post Rua pedonal, mais capital!

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*** 1.0.9.23, 4/2/2008
Fixed bug where a post without a title could not be restored

*** 1.0.9.22, 1/19/2008
Updated to clean up the initial behavior, when creating "new settings" on the first load.
    Now it will not prompt you to save the settings if you haven't made any changes.
    For example, you start the new version and then File/Open your existing BBSettings file.
    This version will not ask you to save your previous settings, which are empty, before opening that file.

Updated to better handle errors during the "Getting next chunk,..." process
    Fixed a bug where the retry wasn't happening.

Added more error logging to the Backing Up Posts process

*** 1.0.9.21, 1/18/2008
Fixed bug with a blog entry not having a "Post" field.

Updated to use a better method of getting the blog URL when using the "Get Feed URL" button.

*** 1.0.9.20, 12/31/2007
Some Posts No Longer Have Title Elements (Blogger Issue)
    Fixed an error that would occur when determing a post file name if there was no "title" element in the post's atom XML.
        If no title is found, "NoTitle-" + Published date is used (NoTitle-20061204102200)

        This used to work fine, but something seems to have changed on the Blogger side of the world.

    When I look at the "NoTitle..." posts from my blog, they DON'T have "official" title's anymore.
    But I have old backups of those posts and they DID have title's... At least then they did then...

    When I go to the raw "self" feed for a post (say href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5655811/posts/default/106026670028866448") there's no title there anymore either.

    So the GData.Net library is not broken, Blogger is.

    sigh...

Added an override to override Published dates for restored posts (Work Item #13734)
    Updated dates cannot be overridden...

Fixed bug where the Restore form could be "Ok"'d without entering a password.

When selecting files to restore, ".Comment.XML" are filtered out (since comment restore is not yet supported). (Work Item #12969)
Updated to restore labels/categories when restoring posts. (Work Item #13628)

Changed Comment URL calculation to handle Service.Post feeds

Updated the GData.Net (Google Data API for .NET) library to the latest release version (1.1.2.0)

Moved to VS2008 Development environment

Added a manifest (for Vista... not required, but VS2008 made it easy...)

Added additional error checking and logging to the Custom Path Builder process

Updated to use the Service.Post URL (if available) instead of the ServiceFeed (aka Alternate) (Work Item #11853)
    This was done to avoid/resolve FeedBurner redirection issues.

    ServiceFeed (aka Alternate) feed would be something like http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default (previously used)
    Service.Post feed would be something like http://www.blogger.com/feeds/BlogID/posts/default

    The Service.Post feed can be manually seen via the Blog's header ("view source"), Link element with the rel="service.post" attribute.

Added a "Get Feed URL" button to "Manually add a Blogger blog" on the Blog List form

Changed the "Custom Path Builder" button caption to "Backup File Naming" (Work Item #12690)

Change the title of the "Path Builder" form to "Backup File Naming Options" (Work Item #12690)

Made the default size of the "Backup File Naming Options" form smaller. (Work Item #12690)

Now the last used/selected Blog in the Available Blogs list will be remembered and restored. (Work Item #12689)

Updated to support for private, non-feed publishing blogs.
    This will require the user to log into Blogger though...

Added a Right-Click Edit feature to the Blog List form
    Now you can edit existing blog list items

Added "Log into Blogger when backing up this feed" checkbox to the Blog List form, Manual tab
    With this you can indicate that you want to log into Blogger when backing up the selected Blog

*** 1.0.7.16, 8/10/2007
Double left clicking on the Processing Results list will open the selected file
    If you're backing up in the "One file per post" mode, when you double click on a Post title in the "Processed posts" list the given post will be opened in what ever program is configured to open *.XML files (i.e. Internet Explorer, etc)

The way settings are saved was reworked from the ground up (Work Item #12082)
    Settings are now saved via a "normal" process.
    File/Open, File/New, File/Save, File/Save As menu items have been added.

    You can now save your settings in the location that makes sense to you.
        There is no more hidden, magical, registry or isolated storage being used. It's all in the one BBSettings file.

    This also means you can backup your Settings, use them on different machines, etc.

    Also each blog now has it's own group of settings.
        So for one of your blogs you can choose to backup comments, whereas on another you can choose to NOT backup comments.

    The Blogger Password IS NOT saved in the BBSettings file. Nor is it saved in any other location on the computer.
    The WebProxy Password IS saved in the BBSettings file, but is encrypted using Microsoft's Data Protection API.

The method of selecting blogs has been reworked from the ground up (Work Item #12081)
    You can now manually add Blogger blogs to the list.
    You don't have to login at all to backup your blog.

    NOTE: The Blogger Backup utility uses your Public Feed to backup your posts.
    If your feeds are off, then nothing can be backed up
    If your feeds are set to Summary, then only those Summary feeds will be backed up.

    I am looking into providing support for private feed backup support (but that will require you to log in to backup your blog...)

    Also Restoring Posts of course requires you to log in...

*** 1.0.6.15, 7/29/2007
Updated the GData.Net (Google Data API for .NET) library to the latest release version (1.0.9.9)

Added Log4Net logging
    Logging is on by default and for all levels.
    No sensitive information (i.e. password) is meant to be logged.
        BUT since errors/exceptions are logged, and I'm not in control of all of those, I cannot guarantee that those exceptions will not include sensitive information.

    By default the logs will be created in your Application Data folder and be called ApplicationLog.txt.
        The logs are "rolling", meaning each time you start the program, you get a fresh new log file
        Only the most recent 5 historical logs are saved (for a total of 6 log files, the current log and 5 historical logs)

    A Help/View Logs menu item has been added to open the folder where the logs are...

*** 1.0.5.14, 7/21/2007
Added Restore Post Feature (Work Item #11531)
    Now you can selectively restore previously backed up posts
    This is feature, like the rest of the app, is in beta testing (i.e. once it hits the public, I'm sure people are going to find issues/bugs/etc)

    Only "One Post per File" backups are currently supported.

    PLEASE NOTE: Blogger has a 50 Post Per Day limit.
    Meaning you will only be able to post a maximum of 50 posts a day to a blog. Total. This is a Google/Blogger limitation.
    No errors that I can catch will occur, once you hit the 50 limit the posts will just not appear in the blog.

    To try to help you track the number of posts you've restored on a given day, a Restored Posts count is tracked.

    Also where possible I try to warn you when you've hit the 50 post a day limit...

Added the underscore "_" character as a built-in post naming option (Work Item #11840)

Added the Post's page URL as a Post Naming option (Work Item #11841)
    If the post's complete URL is http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2007/07/This_is_a_Blog_Post.html

    Then the page URL "This_is_a_Blog_Post" is the value used for this new Post Naming option.

*** 1.0.4.10, 7/14/2007
Added new Path Builder feature
    Now you can create the folder structure and post file names that best suit you.

    It will default to [Backup Folder]\Blog Title\PublishedDate(ISO8601 YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS formatted)"-"PostTitle.XML (pretty much the way it was before).

    But now YOU can tweak that path to best fit your style and needs.

    Want to store each year's posts in a different subfolder?
    Want to store each month's posts in a different subfolder?
    Want to reverse that and store it my month/year?

    Done, done, done.

    Want to change the post file name? Say only using the post title?
    Or Year-Month-PostTitle?
    Or only use the ISO8601 date (YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS - 20070707T081012)?
    Want to use custom static text value?

    Done, done, done, done.

    Want to use Updated dates instead of Published dates?

    Done.

    Want to play around and see how the different options will effect the final names?

    Done.

    Again, the new path build is meant to allow you the all the flexibility you may need or want.

    This is the first time I've built something like this, so please bear with me as I may tweak it in future versions...

Removed "Add blog title to folder" feature
    Built into the new Path Builder functionality

*** 1.0.3.8, 7/8/2007
Fixed bug where backing up wouldn't ever stop if a blog had a multiple of 25 posts (25, 100, 350, etc) (Work Item #11588)

Fixed bug where the "Get only the most recent ### posts" feature was also broken. (Work Item #11593)

Now when the "Backup Posts" button is clicked the Backed Up count (the number at the bottom right) in the status bar is cleared.

*** 1.0.2.7, 7/7/2007
Fixed bug where you couldn't "Stop" in the middle of the "Error looking for comments, retrying.." loop (Work Item #11570)
    Now if Stop is pressed, and the app is in the retrying comments loop, it will now exit/stop processing correctly.

Fixed bug where you couldn't "Stop" in the middle of the ""Error getting next chunk, retrying.." loop
    Now if Stop is pressed, and the app is in the retrying get next chunk loop, it will now exit/stop processing correctly.

Updated the "Add blog title to folder" feature to better remove characters that are invalid for a folder name
    Previously I was just using IO.Path.GetInvalidPathChars as my list of "bad" characters.
    The problem is that that list didn't include the many of the common "bad" characters, like :,*,|, ", etc
    Now I'm using both the IO.Path.GetInvalidPathChars AND IO.Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars to ensure a blog title that's compatible with the file system

Added global unhandled exception handler
    Now if an unhandled exception occurs, a big ugly error dialog will appear with the error message.
    A trace message was also added. I need to add more tracing as well as an easy method for the user to turn it on & view it.

*** 1.0.1.6, 5/19/2007
Removed "Blogger 2.0 (Old Blogger)" as an option

Added "Only new posts since" feature
    Using this to get the posts posted between now and the given date

Changed form/control layout

Added an initial "All Posts since last backup" type of feature
    Now the newest/latest Post's date is saved when backing up.
    The next time that blog is selected; the "Only new posts since" fields will be populated with that date/time.

Fixed a bug in the "Safe Name" function, where it wouldn't work after creating a "0001" named file.
    So after saving a same-named post for the third time, the application would appear to freeze up.
    Stupid location of a Dim was the cause (Note to Self, Dim/initialize an incrementing variable OUTSIDE the loop ... sigh...)

Added more reliable Comment saving.
    Added retries and cleaned up the code a little to try to make comment saving more reliable.

*** 1.0.0.5, 3/17/2007
Added "Maximum Enrties Per File" option
    When backing up post to a single file, this option will let you "batch" them into groups.
    Setting "Maximum Enrties Per File" to 250 when using the "Atom Combinded" format means that the a given combinded XML file will only have 250 posts in and and additional files added as needed.
    For example, if you have 397 posts in your blog, and your max is set to 250, you will get two files. The first with 250 posts and the second with the remainder...

Updated to remember and restore main form size and position

Upgraded/replaced the gdata.dll with the latest release of google.gdata.client.dll(1.0.9.4)

Added error handling to better deal with timeout issues when getting the get batch of posts.

*** 1.0.0.4, 3/15/2007
Updated Blogger root URL, Replacing "Blogger 3.0 (Beta)" with "Blogger 3.0" and "Blogger 2.0" with "Blogger 2.0 (Old Blogger)"

*** 1.0.0.3, 11/26/2006
Updated to support saving of comments from Blogger 3/(Beta) blogs
    Blogger 2 does not support the extraction of comments...
    Comments currently always save a seperate Atom 1.0 files no matter the selected "save posts as(format)" option

Added "Save posts as(format)" option
    This is the begining of support for saving the posts in different formats.

    Atom Single (one file per post)
    Atom Combinded(all posts in one file)
    [Pending] BlogML Combinded(all posts in one file)
    [Pending] HTML Single
    [Pending] HTML Combinded
    [Possible] Open XML/WordML (Office 2007) Single [Require .Net 3 be installed]
    [Possible] Open XML/WordML (Office 2007) Combinded [Require .Net 3 be installed]
    [Possible] PDF Single
    [Possible] PDF Combinded
    [Possible] MHTML
    etc, etc.

    * This feature needs some major rework and needs a provider/plugin model.

Fixed bug where Latest 50 & Latest 100 stopped after only getting the latest 25

Added Version Number to main form's title text
    This was done to make it very easy to see what version is being run.

*** 1.0.0.2, 11/23/2006
Added Tools/Options Menu

Add Options Dialog

Added support for web proxies

Implemented web proxy support in GData

Updated to better handle File Path's & Names that exceed MAX_PATH
    File names are now truncated, if need be.

*** 1.0.0.1, 11/22/2006
Fixed Blogger 3.0 issue.
    Now works with both Blogger 2 and Blogger 3

Added Release History text file and related Help menu item

Added "Append Blog Title to Backup Path" option, defaulted as true/on.
    This will add an additional folder level, named based on the given blog's title.

Updated descriptive label text, changing case, etc.

Updated tab order

Swaped positions of "Get only the most recent:" and "Overwrite existing backups?"

*** 1.0.0.0, 11/21/2006
First public alpha release

New Post: Back up doesn't start...

joao_pimentel — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:03:55 GMT

I put everything ok, the user ID and credentials, but the buckup doesn't start

It says:
"Saving pots "post name"" but nothing happens!!

Can you kindly help me?

Thank you

João

LOG:
____________________________-

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New Post: Back up doesn't start...

joao_pimentel — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:03:55 GMT

I put everything ok, the user ID and credentials, but the buckup doesn't start

It says:
"Saving pots "post name"" but nothing happens!!

Can you kindly help me?

Thank you

João

LOG:
____________________________-

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New Post: Not able to restore from the back up file

gduncan411 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:31:17 GMT

It isn't taking them all and putting them into a single post, but it is parsing it. One way to keep the file from being to big is to use the All Posts, One File method, but then change the number of posts per file.

In any case, I don't think this utility is really going to help you. Blogger has a limit of posts that can be made a day, 50, so the utility can only restore 50 posts a day. It would take about forever to restore 38,000.

Best bet might be to use Bloggers built-in export feature and then import that into the new blog. That will work around the 50 per day limit

New Post: Not able to restore from the back up file

gduncan411 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:31:17 GMT

Best bet might be to use Bloggers built-in export feature and then import that into the new blog. That will work around the 50 per day limit

New Post: Not able to restore from the back up file

gduncan411 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:31:17 GMT

Best bet might be to use Bloggers built-in export feature and then import that into the new blog. That will work around the 50 per day limit

New Post: Not able to restore from the back up file

gduncan411 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:31:17 GMT

Best bet might be to use Bloggers built-in export feature and then import that into the new blog. That will work around the 50 per day limit

New Post: Not able to restore from the back up file

telugustudio — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:33:23 GMT

As i told above, i think when i click restore posts, its trying to take all posts file into a single post...so this time i took back up with "Each post in different file"..and i got a xml file for each post. so this time i tried to restore single post(single xml file) , but this time "Error posting to bloger : Execution of Request failed : http://xxxxxxx.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"..so this one also failed to restore.

And one more thing , when i tried add settings in starting, first manually add/edit a bog, there i gave my blog details and then click Get feed URL , nothing came..why??????? so i chose second method "login to blogger to choose ur blogs"

Can u please any body help me to restore my blog , in any method????????????????????????????????????????

New Post: Not able to restore from the back up file

telugustudio — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:33:23 GMT

Can u please any body help me to restore my blog , in any method????????????????????????????????????????