psa: lj backup

[coraa]

LJ is having server maintenance tomorrow. There's no reason to believe that this will cause any data loss, but it's a good reminder to back up, if you care about that sort of thing.

I use LJ Archive for Windows. It backs up posts and comments. There are other programs out there that you can find by Googling, but I've never tried any of them.

Also, LJ Archive has a word count analyzer, which will tell you what words you use the most (less super-common words like 'the' and so on). For me, the top twenty are:

1. actually
2. today
3. start
4. changeling
5. nice
6. someone
7. bread
8. sauce
9. stuff
10. cook
11. food
12. garlic
13. post
14. game
15. oven
16. maybe
17. couple
18. usually
19. problem
20. potatoes

...which is sort of hilariously accurate. Food, fantasy, and equivocation, that's me.

Comments

[archonsengine.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if I should thank you or shake my fist at you. I do now have a secure backup of my journal, but I'm having way too much fun playing with the nifty features and reading old entries. My word count analysis is lame, because it's mostly poker words and random adjectives. The regressive imagery analysis one is totally fun to play with, though!

[canis-ridens.livejournal.com]

Backing up is probably a good idea, just in case. Thanks for the link to a working archive program!

[jmpava.livejournal.com]

1. actually
2. stuff
3. yeah
4. today
5. anyway
6. kinda
7. maybe
8. guess
9. becuase <-- yes, I apparently have 246 iterations of it spelled this way.
10. couple
11. haven't
12. cool
13. okay
14. weekend
15. nice
16. shamik
17. finally
18. stupid
19. working
20. anyone

[triath.livejournal.com]

Feh?

[coraa.livejournal.com]

By default, it only lists words of 4 letters or more. I'd be curious whether 'feh' would make Pav's list if he dropped the minimum. ;)

[triath.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recommendation on programs. I used LiveJournal backup before, but this time it kept getting stuck at a certain point. So I switched to your program. Works great! Thanks!!