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One of a bloggers’ most dreaded fears the loss of data, or more specifically, the loss of all or even some of their posts, especially if they spend a lot of time painstakingly editing and proofreading their own work. Manually firing up and downloading your Wordpress database backup is tedious; and it’s even more difficult to restore it without the help of your hosting admin.

Yesterday, PageFlakes happily announced that it was part of PC World’s 25 Web Sites to Watch; I read the article and found BlogBackupOnline as well.

BlogBackupOnline allows backing up blogs from Blogger, LiveJournal, Windows Spaces and WordPress. On first use it prompts you to perform a full backup of your blog; and then you can set it to perform daily incremental backups (meaning it will just add the newest posts to the existing full backup) based on your RSS feed. That’s it: no need to back to BlogBackupOnline again and again. The default free account allows up to 50MB worth of backup data. The backup data appears to be compressed: 156 entries of this blog only took up 584 KB, images included.

As a bonus, it allows you to restore your backup to any of the above blog engines, making it possible to export your blog if you need to. I do hope that they are able to add more engines to their list though.

I haven’t tried restoring my backup to a clean WordPress instance but I’ll do that soon and inform you of the results.