Prosite was so kind to send me a backup from my database back from the year 2005/06. In this year the archiv grown to 251 posts and gave gave 901 comments. So, its very late to thank you all for supporting this old project and pushed me forward. When i received this email i wasn´t sure what to do with it.
I could setup the complete blog again, but i decided to republish some shit from the past posts in an updated version the next coming days, maybe weeks. For my new readers it might be interresting what happened in the past and hope you enjoy the archives. My problem now is, i received this backup in a .txt file.
So how to import my old ramblings? A solution could be a new niffty feature WordPress has implemented since version 2.1, the XML support.
XML Import / Export
You can now import and export your entire blog and comments as an XML file that WordPress.com will generate for you. You’ll find the export and import options now under “Manage” in your blog admin area. The XML format is an extended version of RSS 2.0. Sounds great, but….
Pro / Contra
The export is mainly useful for moving content between WordPress blogs that you run, whether it’s moving from your self-hosted blog to the convienence of WordPress.com or the other direction. What i´ve seen so far is, it includes posts, pages, comments, drafts, private posts, categories, and more. It’s very resource intensive to dump all the content of a blog out, so i only do an export if i really need it.
Solution
From now on i do on-site and off-site backups hourly and daily, so my data is already very safe against service failures and dumbness. The solution in my case will be:
- setting up a new WP installation
- configure the database with my old settings ( saved in this .txt )
- get in use with this XML thingy and export the content again
- update and sort the content
- get in touch with Misa
- inform all that vErSaUtEs is back and party 3 days!
So visit and check up this page daily for new updates. If there is faster or a smarter solution please drop me a comment.
