Tower of Babel

[babysimon]

So, I now have a cron job which backs up trishpiglet's and my LJ twice a week.

Just one thought: all these backup tools produce different file formats don't they?

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[ms-katonic.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, yes. LJ Archive saves them in .lja format, which I think is unique to that program.

[ms-katonic.livejournal.com]

Although you do appear to be able to export the resulting archive into XML and HTML for possible upload elsewhere, although how and where one would do this is another question entirely.

[babysimon]

Quite a big one. HTML isn't suitable for uploading into a database, and XML is not so much a file format as a means of making file formats. There are lots of XMLs...