Backing up your FaceBook page

November 22nd, 2008 at 7:26am

We get questions from Internet Marketers all the time… The most common one is “How do I backup pages on Blogger?”. So being the techno geeks we are, we explored some documentation about a little plugin for Firefox called ScrapBook. We went, we downloaded, we put it through the ringer. And you know what? This works for every social website we surfed!

ScrapBook is a great way to keep all that data you have on any number of sites organized with a local backup copy that your backup to internet can automatically archive for you. With one program! No command line this, install plugin that, it just saves it so you can put the pieces back together if any of them should go bad on you.

How you are wondering? We did it like this.

A First, go to the ScrapBook download page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427). Click the Install Now (bold green) and when Firefox asks, click to restart.

B Once Firefox has restarted, you’re ready to use ScrapBook.

C Go to a website you’d like to save with ScrapBook. When your there, click “Capture Page As” on the menu.

D Use “Capture Page As” to set the depth of links you want to copy. This is a important! This backs up all the links on your page automatically. With the depth set to zero, you wouldn’t automatically archive those extra pages. Set it to 1 and you’d be able to. However, if it was set to 2, you’d be able to click links on the second page and so on.

E After picking the options you want, click Capture. It’s now saved on your computer! Now, go to the ScrapBook menu and click Show in Sidebar. The captured pages are listed in plain view.

So, what do we have so far? You now have a local copy of all the content on your LinkedIn, etc. page. So if anything goes south, your covered. But like Billy Mays always says… “But we have more for you”.

If you have a backup to internet product like OPENRSM on your computer just make sure that it’s configuration has your personal files selected for backup. All your social website content is backed up this way and backed up with the rest of your data. And Firefox runs on windows, Mac, and Linux all the same. Not only will your computer have a full remote backup, but your social websites will be too.