Blogger Backup Tricks - Can I really backup my blogspot blog

We all know that Blogger or Blogspot is Free for all. But there are some Terms of Service which every blogger needs to follow while making use of this service. You might have heard about recent blogging issues such as Loss of Account, Block of Blogger account or Blog not available ? There are tons of people who are making such complaints / raise issues like these on regular basis. Every time they seek to Blogger, request the Blogger to reactivate their account but do you know what is the main reason for the blog to be unavailable. It is because of violation of Blogger Policy. People from around the world, starts their journey as free blogger and usually they never pay attention to the guidelines which they needs to follow if they wish to operate on blogger. 

Today, in this article, we are not going to discuss the blogger policy rather we would see if there are any solution to this. So that our hard work which we had put in for the last many years, may not get vanished in a fraction of seconds. In this article, we will learn How to make backup of our blogger blog so that if any incident of such kind may appear, we may use the backup of our blog to restore it quickly without wasting our hard work and the most important thing i.e. Readers. 

We need to make backup on a periodical basis. let's say every fortnight or every month or every 3 month. This is completely your discretion as to when you want to back up your blog. Before I start the steps, let me tell you that even a novice blogger can make back up of blog and there is no requirements to be a professional blogger. So let's start.

Steps to make Backup of Blogger / Blogspot blog : 

1. Log in to your blogger dashboard. 
2. Go to 'Other' under the 'Setting' tab on the left pan. 
3. As you can see in the above image, there are 2 tabs given on this page. One is 'Import' tab and the other is 'Back up content' tab. 
4. Here, if you want to import some posts / comments from other blogs, you can make use of 'Import' tab. (We will discuss about import of blog posts in other article). 
5. Click on 'Back up content' tab and you will see another pop up window. (See image above).
6. Click 'Save to your computer'. The moment you hit on that tab, Backup of your blog will start instantly. Once complete, you can keep this file to a safe location so that whenever you feel necessary, you can use this file to back up the blog easily. 

So that was the easy tutorial for how to make back up of blogger / blogspot blog and restore it later.