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. 

this is actually really useful if you have an art blog full of years of work that you otherwise no longer have access to the original files. A lot of the art I have in the early days of my art blog are in that boat. I did this process JUST for that reason and I was pretty astonished at just how many pieces of media it backs up! (literally all of it) Drawings I didn’t even realize were sitting in my archive due to having been posted to text posts or undercuts, or untagged for years! It’s worth it if just for that, even if tumblr isn’t shutting down or deleting your blog.

reference. 

Tested this, it works as advertised above. Grabs all text posts, image+gif posts (both original and reblogs). Preserves tags. Does not grab videos or audios.

Backing Up a Big Tumblr Art Blog - For Mac Users

Make the below changes to the Windows instructions already posted above. DO NOT JUST DO THE BELOW STEPS ALONE!

STEP 0: For any of this to work, your blog must be visible outside Tumblr

STEP 1:

STEP 2:

STEP 3: SKIP ALL PARTS OF THIS ENTIRE STEP

STEP 4:

STEP 5:

Thanks for sharing the Mac instructions!  I just did ‘em and it all worked.

also for step 2.2 if it doesn’t automatically unzip, just double-click it and it should unzip into the same location.  The precise file name might also be different toward the end.

None of my blogs are adult, but I still recommend doing this because sloppy Tumblr is sloppy, and it’s always good to have backups of your stuff - especially when a platform has proven itself to be unstable!

Thanks for sharing the

Mac instructions! I just did

‘em and it all worked.

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My favorite is the unusual fact that while we see Megatronus/Solus as a main ship, Amalgamous/Nexus is also believed to be canon and Onyx was very jealous of it because he couldn't be a part of it. That is real hinted canon in the Covenant. They were together more than often and Onyx was very pissed about it.

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There were so many slow-motion impacts in this series- this is just a perfect way to use ‘em.  

Im crying why is this so funny it kept getting better bc it just kept going???

Never not reblog

The hits just continue.

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