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Do you have an automatic backup solution?

My backup is my feed reader

I wrote an article in 2006 about a simple solution to create a backup while writing an article: Productivity: Clipboard as Auto Save. Now I stumbled over another great possibility to automatically backup my articles. My preferred feed reader BlogBridge offers the great feature to automatically save incoming feed items. Edit: Checking the BlogBridge service plan I see that you need at least the basic plan for $5/3months (which I have) to get the described feature.

BlogBridge can automatically save articles and/or enclosures.

How-To backup a feed with BlogBridge

1. Select a feed.
2. Go to the feed properties.
3. Choose the 'Advanced' tab.
4. Activate 'Automatically save articles' and /or enclosures
5. Choose a folder where to store the articles. In my case it is ".../Text/Backup - Performancing/from BlogBridge".
6. Choose a file format. In my case it is "YYYY-MM-DD - Title".

Bingo. Say 'OK' and you are done.

• In the future every new incoming feed item is stored as an HTML file.
• All the formatting is saved!

Of course you have to have a full feed to get this backup plan working.

Bonus: ReBlogging with BlogBridge

BlogBridge as archive and research tool.

• If you have one of the pro-versions of BlogBridge you are able to post to your blog.
• Select an article, push 'B' and an editor will pop up.
• Edit the content as you like and then you are ready to post.
• Archive and/or research solution: For your own feeds I recommend to set a high purge limit. For my performancing.com blog the setting is '500'.

How great is that?

Fresh from the press ... Not much to say more than that my favorite RSS reader BlogBridge is available in version 6.0. I am using the weekly version since, well, a very long time now, and that Java beast is handling all my feeds (over 1,000) absolutely fine.

Pito Salas, the project leader, is saying it proud and clear:

Yes, sportsfans, we are very proud to announce that BlogBridge 6.0, (in our opinion) the most powerful blog and feed reader, is now available for immediate download. This is the culmination of 6 months of intense development, innovating in many areas, and refining, speeding up and smoothing out others

Source: BlogBridge 6.0, on our shelves right now!

For a quick glance check out: Visual Tour - Does Your Aggregator Do This?

PS: It is possible to post articles (and whole feeds) directly from BlogBridge. Have a look at BB Service - Plans. I am using the basic plan and it is one of the fastest way to blog directly from reading a feed to your blog.