The Chronicle of Anthony K. Valley

A Simple Backup Plan for your MT Blog

Allegheny College has a tutorial wrapped around their implementation of Movable Type at the campus, an interesting thing to note is that the tutorial stresses having a backup plan for your blog.

While this template is a good start for protecting your data, it will not ensure that your filenames are the same if you have to do a rebuild.

Mileage may vary, please season to taste:

<MTEntries lastn="1000" sort_order="ascend">
AUTHOR: <$MTEntryAuthor$>
TITLE: <$MTEntryTitle$>
STATUS: <$MTEntryStatus$>
ALLOW COMMENTS: <$MTEntryFlag flag="allow_comments"$>
CONVERT BREAKS: <$MTEntryFlag flag="convert_breaks"$>
ALLOW PINGS: <$MTEntryFlag flag="allow_pings"$>
PRIMARY CATEGORY: <$MTEntryCategory$>
<MTEntryCategories>
CATEGORY: <$MTCategoryLabel$>
</MTEntryCategories>
DATE: <$MTEntryDate format="%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p"$>
-----
BODY:
<$MTEntryBody convert_breaks="0"$>
-----
EXTENDED BODY:
<$MTEntryMore convert_breaks="0"$>
-----
EXCERPT:
<$MTEntryExcerpt no_generate="1" convert_breaks="0"$>
-----
KEYWORDS:
<$MTEntryKeywords$>
-----
<MTComments>
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: <$MTCommentAuthor$>
EMAIL: <$MTCommentEmail$>
IP: <$MTCommentIP$>
URL: <$MTCommentURL$>
DATE: <$MTCommentDate format="%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p"$>
<$MTCommentBody convert_breaks="0"$>
-----
</MTComments>
<MTPings>
PING:
TITLE: <$MTPingTitle$>
URL: <$MTPingURL$>
IP: <$MTPingIP$>
BLOG NAME: <$MTPingBlogName$>
DATE: <$MTPingDate format="%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p"$>
<$MTPingExcerpt$>
-----
</MTPings>
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</MTEntries>

Posted by akvalley at January 3, 2004 07:36 AM | TrackBack