Exporting blog

[Richard Vobes]

I would like to export my blog and although on the forums it says you can export as an xml file, I do not have the option to download archive, only download a back up  in an sql format which I cannot open.

Can you help please?

Richard

[GregChapman]

Hi Richard,

I believe that Nabble's backup file format changed a while back but the documentation left unchanged.  

As I understand it the backup file is only designed to be re-imported into Nabble should a forum have been deleted accidentally. Pedro should be along shortly to confirm this.

I don't believe there is any easy - if way at all - to provide a suitable file that can be used to import a Nabble blog into another service provider.

Off-topic:
I still don't listen to "The Naked Englishmen" and was taken pleasantly by surprise to find my podcatcher recently picked up three files for "The Vobes Show" - Miss them sorely!
From your mate, the Tea Towel Ironer (in joke" for Richard!)

[Richard Vobes]

Hi Greg

Thanks for the comments. Who is pedro? Does he work for Nabble?

I was under the impression one could back up the archive and export it. Its a great pity to loose seven years blogging.

Best wishes Richard

On 24 October 2014 10:55, GregChapman [via Nabble Support] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Richard,

I believe that Nabble's backup file format changed a while back but the documentation left unchanged.  

As I understand it the backup file is only designed to be re-imported into Nabble should a forum have been deleted accidentally. Pedro should be along shortly to confirm this.

I don't believe there is any easy - if way at all - to provide a suitable file that can be used to import a Nabble blog into another service provider.

Off-topic:
I still don't listen to "The Naked Englishmen" and was taken pleasantly by surprise to find my podcatcher recently picked up three files for "The Vobes Show" - Miss them sorely!
From your mate, the Tea Towel Ironer (in joke" for Richard!)

Just a Volunteer Nabble Helper - because the nice folk at Nabble have helped me!

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[GregChapman]

Hi Richard,

Richard Vobes wrote

Thanks for the comments. Who is pedro? Does he work for Nabble?

Pedro is the lead staff man on Nabble Suppport these days. I think he's based in Brazil, so tends to respond in the middle of the night - for we UK types.

I was under the impression one could back up the archive and export it. Its a great pity to loose seven years blogging.

Even when the backup file generated by Nabble was an XML file, I understand it took a lot of specialist knowledge to devise a script that would be usable by any other blogging software as the basis for import, so in practical terms, it was only really of any use to Nabble staff to use to restore a Nabble forum that had been deleted through inactivity.

Yes, for someone like you, who has been pretty prolific over the years, it would be a huge loss. The best I can suggest - other than staying with Nabble - is to make sure you keep your registered email address current, so you do see the messages that Nabble issue when they warn of content being deleted through lack of visits and make sure you visit. That is sufficient to keep it live. Then just start a new blog elsewhere and maintain a link to your old Nabble blog.  I moved most of my forums from YahooGroups to Nabble some years ago using that approach.

In my case, I have always subscribed to my blogs/forums so have pretty near complete record of posts in a plain text format and it might be possible to create a suitable file for upload elsewhere, but if you haven't got an email archive that suggestion is a bit "after the horse has bolted" advice, so probably wasn't worth saying!

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.