How to Back Up Your Blogger Blog (Posts, Theme, Comments and Images)
Do you know how to back up your Blogger blog? There is nothing worse than signing in one day to find your blog deleted, hacked or locked by a policy mistake. QuickOnlineTips itself started on Blogger, which is why we wrote this guide in 2005. Back then we emailed every post to ourselves and copied the template into Notepad. In 2026 Blogger has proper built-in backup tools. Here is how to back up everything: posts, pages, comments, your theme and your images.
Quick answer: In Blogger, open Settings, scroll to Manage blog and click Back up content, then Download. This saves your posts, pages and comments in one XML file. Back up your theme separately from Theme, then the arrow next to Customize, then Backup. For a complete copy including images, use Google Takeout and select Blogger.
Table of Contents
1. Back up posts, pages and comments
- Sign in to Blogger and choose your blog.
- Click Settings in the left menu.
- Scroll down to Manage blog and click Back up content.
- Click Download. Blogger saves an XML file with every post, page and comment.
You can import this file into another Blogger blog from the same Manage blog section, or into WordPress using the Blogger importer.
2. Back up your Blogger theme
- Click Theme in the left menu.
- Click the down arrow next to Customize.
- Choose Backup, then Download.
Do this every time you change your theme or add widgets, and name the files by date, as we did in 2005. If you have lost template code, see how to restore lost Blogger template code.
3. Back up everything with Google Takeout
Google Takeout exports all your Blogger blogs at once, including posts, comments, theme and settings, and can include the images you uploaded. Select Blogger (and Google Photos if your blog images are stored there), choose the file type and size, and Google emails you a download link. Schedule exports every two months for automatic backups.
4. Make an offline copy of your blog
A tool like HTTrack Website Copier downloads a browsable copy of your published blog. It is useful as an archive, but it cannot be imported back into Blogger. Large blogs take a long time and lots of bandwidth.
5. Keep extra copies of new posts
- Write drafts elsewhere in Google Docs or another editor, then paste into Blogger. You always have a copy.
- Turn on comment emails in Settings, then Comments, so you receive a copy of each comment.
- Subscribe to your own feed in a feed reader or email service for a running archive. See our guide to popular feed readers.
How often should you back up?
For an active blog, download a content backup once a month and after any big change. Store copies in two places, such as your computer and a cloud drive like Google Drive or Dropbox. A backup on the same Google account as your blog will not help if that account is locked.
Moving from Blogger to WordPress?
Your Blogger backup file is the starting point for a move. After importing, set up redirects so old links keep working and keep a stable WordPress permalink structure. Remember to back up the custom domain settings and any AdSense or Analytics codes in your theme too.
FAQ
Does the Blogger backup include images?
No. The Back up content file only links to images. Use Google Takeout to download the image files.
Can I restore a deleted Blogger blog?
Deleted blogs can usually be restored from the Blogger dashboard for a short period. After that, only your backup can help.
Is my Blogger backup file readable?
It is an XML file. You can open it in a text editor, but it is meant for importing into Blogger or WordPress.
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Yeah i think its a good idea to back up your blog,
dear thank you, you have explained it very well..
Here is a Detailed guide on Continuous Backup of Posts:
http://howbloggerto.blogspot.com/2011/09/detailed-guide-on-blogger-blog-posts.html
Thanks for writing such a great post. I will use this method to backup my entire blog lest i regret.
Is it possible to do incremental backup of a blog? I’m thinking if you have to backup a lot of blogs with a lot of activity it could be quite storage intensive to take full backups all the time.
Error is really annoying sometimes and it makes unfavorable outcome… Back up is indeed very important in everything. At least we are prepared just in case something unfavorable happens.
can i backup my post after delete it ?
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Yeah i think its a good idea to back up your blog, especially with how vulnerable WP can be. I got hacked a while back and they messed up my blog :/
-jack
Hi all,
I’ve developed a Java tool that grabs the content of the blog and exports them into various formats, such as Text/PDF/RTF/ HTML. Its written in Java and s cross platform. The windows installer is located at : https://code.google.com/archive/p/backupblog
yes you are right but i cant access to my blogbackupr account.
What should I do?
Hey try our free blog backup service at https://www.maxplaces.com/
You could also try blogbackupr.com . I found them easy and simple to use. Peace.
Great and interesting tip. It’s a very helpful resource to all bloggers out there who don’t want to lose their blogs.
Kudos!
Great post.I was wondering if there is a way to keep my blog automatically backedup and updated !!
Always a pleasure to visit your blog, keep up the good work and thank you
HELP!
My blog won’t backup. Blogger’s instructions say to replace the template with their HTML. It won’t let me save the new template. Anybody else having this problem?
Here’s the error message:
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please
make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The content of elements must consist of well-formed
character data or markup.
There are always winner posts in your blog thanks
PHEW! I’ve been doing my blog for four years now and im so scared that one day it may just BLEEP dissappear. Im backing it all up RIGHT NOW!
A very useful post. Thank you for sharing.
A very useful tips. Thanks for sharing a wide variety of back up methods!
Some very usefull stuff. Thanx.
Your advice is very much appreciated, thank you for the informative posting
I heard of this online app that automatically backs up your blogs and its free to use. I guess you can restore from one blog platform to another and it works pretty well. Its called BlogBackupOnline. The site is http://www.BlogBackupOnline.com. Has anyone tried this?
Sound advice indeed. Blogger is notoriously unreliable – especially in the lead up to the new beta version. It seems so cumbersome having to save your posts as a text file, which is what I’ve been doing, so your advice is appreciated.
In your post,
Bloggers provides detailed instructions to create a single file with all your posts
Could you update the link to “detailed instructions” .. It’s important page but missing.
Thanks,
Maverick
How about restore?
How can i restore a backup if “accidentally” delete my blog, or worst, my blog is hacked? (restore on a new blog address).
Mario
Nice one, everything you’d need to know about backing up a Blogger blog in one place.
Very useful indeed. Thanks
:o)