Medium: Backup Your Stories
How to get a basic (HTML) Backup of your writing
If you ever read stories from publication The Wake Up Call you might have noticed they have DISAPPEARED:
The Wake Up Call was a publication that only accepted stories from writers on the Top Writers lists, so was full of experts. It was also special in that all it’s writers were made editors automatically. Because it was a publication, and all stories are primarily with the writer, I should think no stories were actually lost.
This is a timely reminder, what would happen if :
YOUR PROFILE DISAPPEARED OVERNIGHT.
Everything you ever wrote will probably disappear with it:
- All your stories
- All the little typo fixes that you keep meaning to transcribe
- The images selected to pair with each story
- All responses and replies that you wrote
…basically everything. Gone.
What would you do?
Is it time to review your backup policy?
What’s that? You don’t have a backup policy? You don’t have a backup?
Time to get one, and time to do your first backup. Medium has a facility to do a basic backup of your stories. Instructions at:
What it Produces
A HTML file of each story you have written, archived into a single .zip file. That’s all published and all draft stories. It also includes all comments and responses. Your original stories will be somewhat buried if you write a lot of comments but they will be there in published date order.
If anything does go wrong and you lose all your stories, you should be able to restore, worse case scenario is you will have to copy and paste stories.
The archive zip file also includes sessions and claps and other stuff, so you can view the history of all the claps you have assigned.
Do not take the view that, “Backups are for sissies.” Time to review your Backup Strategy and do a backup.
While I’ve got you here, perhaps this is a good time to review the backup process for your computer as well…
Publications
Note: If you have a publication you can also get an archive zip file, but you have to request it via email found at the bottom of the “How to EXPORT Content” help page.
