We get Internet Marketing questions all the time… One of the most frequent is “How do I back up my FaceBook?”. So being the techno geeks we are, we noticed some documentation about a useful plugin for Firefox called ScrapBook. We read, downloaded, installed, and used it hard. And, you know? This works for every social website we tried!
ScrapBook is a great way to keep all that stuff 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 button (green) and restart Firefox when instructed.
B Once Firefox has restarted, you’re ready to use ScrapBook.
C Click onto one of your social websites 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. You wouldn’t be able to copy those extra pages if the depth is set to zero. You’d be able to if it’s set to 1. But if it were set to 2, you would have saved all the secondary pages, etc.
E After you’ve selected the different options, click Capture. A copy is now saved! Now, go to the ScrapBook menu and click Show in Sidebar. You’ll see the pages you’ve captured listed.
Here’s what we have so far? You now have a local copy of all the content on your MySpace, etc. page. So if anything goes south, your covered. But like they say on TV… “But wait, we’re not done yet”.
If you have a backup to internet product like CloudBackup on your computer just make sure that it’s configuration has your personal files selected for backup. That way you can have all your social websites backed up and preserved with the rest of your computers essential data. And Firefox runs on windows, Mac, and Linux all the same. Not only will your computer have a full offsite archive, but your social websites will be too.
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