When I catalogued the next steps for restoring my now-dormant blogs, I failed to include the importance of migrating Orcmid’s Live Hideout off of Windows Live Spaces.
My intention is to exercise all of the migration choices that are being offered:
The page with these options is only present when I visit the blog and am signed-in as its owner.
My approach is to work through this in stages:
- Download my Blog
I want to preserve the blog. I downloaded all of my Blogger blogs and I wonder how much the download from Windows Live Space preserves the material of the blog. Although essentially a safety-measure, it may provide useful material to use in preserving the posts I want to retain somewhere under my own web hosting arrangement.
- Transfer Posts via Windows Live Writer
I know I can retrieve previous posts into Windows Live Writer and then repost them to a different blog from there. Before I can do that, I need have a place to park them, although they could remain on my local machine as Windows Live Writer drafts, I suppose.
I considered moving the blog to WordPress.com and then using Windows Live Writer to fish posts from there. But it dawned on me that if the upgrade to WordPress has breakage of any kind, that will be an irreversible act.
- Upgrade the Blog to WordPress.com
I will do this simply because I want to see it work and to know that I could continue the blog there if I was so inclined. This has to be the last possible step, because of the prospect of incomplete or unsuccessful upgrade.
- Retire Orcmid’s Live Hideout
I don’t expect to continue the blog in any form, so it will be abandoned or shut down once I have preserved what I want from it in some useful form. I do want it in static pages on a server under my control and backup procedures. That’s a serious consideration for me.
I’ll be making progress on this in little steps along with the other activities around a systematic restoration of my now-dormant blogs.
del.icio.us Tags: Windows Live Writer, Orcmid's Live Hideout, blog migration, WLW, Windows Live Spaces, nfoCentrale, blog backup
My colleague Bill Anderson has performed a migration of Band's Stands on Windows Live to WordPress.com although he had to change the name in the URL.
There is a concern for how much by way of spam comments is carried from one site to the other. I have discovered that I have an exquisite supply of spam on Orcmid's Live Hideout It is really quite awful.