Date: 2018-12-07 04:51 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] 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.
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