OK, I want to be a web 2.0 geek, really I do. I always say I’m a geek wanna-be. I download things; I request to be part of super, special, secret beta programs; I read TechCrunch But let me…

To answer two questions/concerns:

1) “Why didn’t I used the Metaweblog API?” Mostly because it doesn’t allow access to all of the tables in the blog so you can’t rebuild after a crash or hack attempt. Plus there are security concerns with it sending plain passwords over the wire.

2) “However, I’m really sceptical about giving out my FTP information to, well, just a site.” I understand and that is why there is the Manual Setup option which doesn’t require you to give out any login info.

Thanks again to everyone for checking out BackupMyBlog — if you have any other questions please feel free to stop by the forums.

Everyday 10 - 20 new ‘Web 2.0′ products/services are launched on the web and everyone once in a while one of them is not just cool, but useful, and valuable. I love when that happens.
Backupmyblog.com - these guys back up your blog remotel…

However, I’m really sceptical about giving out my FTP information to, well, just a site.

use AutoMySQLBackup: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/mysqlscript.htm or MySQL Backup Pro: http://mysqlbackup.phpmagazine.net/.

My suggestions for a blog-backup app.:

It should be easy to use. That’s the most important thing. Imagine your mother (if she’s, like most mothers, not computer savvy) trying to use it when you’re designing the UI.
It should be able to change the directory the posts archive to, even after one has been using it for a while. That means it should be able to automatically move all the files to the newly specified folder.
It should work with the four major blogging platforms; Blogger, Wordpress, Movable Type and TypePad. I’m not too sure Blogger supports http://FTP.
If possible, it should look good and should be appealing to the eye.
It should be able to backup the comments of each post as well (this is another important one).

(I love the heavy use of green in the design) [ME TOO, Michael!]…I have some tips that may help you:…

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so far it backs up everything to the local harddrive, haven’t got round to the GUI yet, too scared to test out the restore method yet hehe

all you need for the app is ftp access to your blog, no scripts need to be installed on the blog’s server,

just something to keep me busy on a sunday afternoon

Michael, am I the only one who loves the new design? I think Orli likes it too, but I’m not too sure. I know you’re being attacked from all sides, but please don’t go back to the old design. The new one’s mighty cool. Call me mad, but I actually like the sponsor buttons. The only thing I think could be better is the image switching CSS on the nav-bar. The contrast is too much. Going from white on green, to green on white is kinda hard on the eyes.

Scottitude, I’ll have to disagree with you. All “professional” bloggers don’t “plaster redundant ads all over their pages”. Have a look at this blog, TechCrunch for example. Michael Arrington is a “professional blogger”, right? Do you see ads plastered all over the page? No. Just four little sponsor images and some text ads, placed outside of the blog content. I too am a blogger, but not a professional one. I do have ads on my site, but they’re way down in the sidebar and they’re there only so that my blog can pay for itself. Most bloggers aren’t even interested and making anything back. They just want to be able to do it for free. I would never pay more than my hosting and domain charges just to have a “better” interface at TypePad. If you know how to COPY and PASTE text, you can set up a Wordpress blog. After that, there’s not much to maintaining it. And even total Internet newbies have Wordpress blogs, they just pay/get someone to set it up for them. I’ve been looking for low-end web-design, site-construction work over the past few months and you’ll be astonished to know how many people are willing to pay you to set up a Wordpress blog for them. Offers start at $50-100.

I still don’t understand TypePad. Why in the world would I pay to blog? I’m trying to earn a little bit from it. Paying would just neutralise my 10$ from AdSense. I’ve also noticed that you have less control over your blog with TypePad. And why in the world does every TypePad user have the same damn favicon?
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The answer: TypePad is a simple yet robust user-friendly interface for blogging. It isn’t designed to create an online revenue center for redundant ads that “professional bloggers” plaster all over their pages.

If you have the knowledge and skill, you can do anything with a TypePad blog that you can do with other systems and the process is usually much simpler.

As for favicons, it’s only because the TypePad bloggers you’ve visited have chosen not to create and upload their own; If you can select and upload a file, you can have a favicon for your TypePad blog.

Still, their backup system, like all others, isn’t perfect. If and when a third-party backup program will backup everything (text, images, audio, etc.) I’ll certainly consider it as an additional tool.

However, this software seem like not working well with Chinese characters.

Feedburner or Technorati is not a question, as long someone provide the service. (Since Blogger do not provide such important feature)