and Linux

We answer questions from bloggers all the time… One of the most persistant ones is “How do I back up the content on Bukisa?”.  So being the web guys we are, we checked out some documentation about a new plugin for Firefox titled ScrapBook.  We went, we downloaded, we put it through the ringer. And suprise!? This works for every Web 2.0 we tried!

ScrapBook is a new way to keep all that content you have on any number of sites protected with a local copy that your web backup can automatically archive for you. With one program! It just saves it. No command lines, fancy plugins or holding your tongue just right. If bad things happen to one of your sites, you’ve got the content.

How you say? We did it like this.

A First, go to the ScrapBook download page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427). Click the Install Now button (green) and restart Firefox when instructed.

B Once Firefox has restarted, you’re ready to use ScrapBook.

C Go to a website you’d like to save with ScrapBook. Once you’re there, on the menu, select Capture Page As.

D Use “Capture Page As” to set the depth of links you want to copy. This is a important! This is how you can automatically back up all the links on your page. With the depth set to zero, you wouldn’t automatically archive those extra pages. Set it to 1 and you’d be able to. But if it is set to 2, you will save all the linked pages and so on.

E After picking the options you want, click Capture. It’s now saved on your computer! Now, go to the ScrapBook menu and click Show in Sidebar. The captured pages are listed in plain view.

So this is what we’ve got so far? You now have a local copy of all the content on your LinkedIn, etc. page. So if anything goes south, your covered. But as they show on Cable TV… “But we have more for you”.

If you have a backup to internet product like OPENRSM Cloudbackup on your computer just make sure that it’s configuration has your personal files selected for backup. All your social website content is backed up this way and backed up with the rest of your data. And Firefox runs on windows, Mac, and Linux all the same.  Not only will your computer have a full online backup, but your social websites will be too.