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[brin_bellway]

Possibly Wordpress's (temporary?) removal of incremental Tumblr imports (it's now one-per-person) wasn't just to deal with overwhelming demand. There are a whole lot of duplicate posts in my Wordpress archive (I had 3,750 Tumblr posts at time of last import, yet I have over 6k Wordpress posts), and while I don't know for sure, "failed to properly skip already-imported posts while performing an 'incremental' import" seems the obvious answer for why.

Worst part is that, when using the "previous post" and "next post" buttons, it mostly skips the duplicates. I didn't even notice they were there until I tried to return to a post and hit the (non-cleaned formatting) duplicate instead. I'll have to work from the per-month archives instead of directly going from post to post.

(Still, better too many copies than not enough.)

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[theopjones]

In a pinch you could probably self-host a wordpress somewhere, and install the import plugin on it.

And I actually was able to get an export out of tumblr's official export feature even though it took a while. Seems to be a zip file with the post text in html and in a xml file of some find, with images in the posts in a separate folder full of jpgs, pngs and gifs.

[brin_bellway]

And I actually was able to get an export out of tumblr's official export feature even though it took a while.

For local backups I've been using tumblr-utils for ages, and it's been working pretty well: I do seem to recall it got glitchy when I tried to include multiple usernames in a single command (which I think it claimed it could do), but simply rephrasing the cron job as "python tumblr_backup.py brin-bellway && python tumblr_backup.py docfuture [etc]" rather than "python tumblr_backup.py brin-bellway docfuture [etc]" made things run smoothly again.

(I have not yet read Fall of Doc Future or its sequels, but I reserve the right to.)

My primary goal for the Wordpress backup is to have something I can link people to: I often use links to old posts to provide context for new posts, and I really don't want to start fresh or rely on Tumblr links continuing to exist.

It's the way the posts were hidden from the moving-directly-from-one-post-to-the-next view that annoys me, really. I already knew I was going to have to clean up the formatting, after all.