Tumblr is a fast growing blogging service with millions of users all writing, posting, and sharing their ideas and photos. Like WordPress, many use Tumblr for a variety of different types of content. If you have a Tumblr, you have probably spent a fair bit of time getting your theme set the way you want and putting out quality posts you care about. Losing all of that would be awful, and with the way many online services and social networks attempt to change their sites so frequently, it’s a definitely possibility. Luckily there are quite a few services available that will help you back up some or all of your Tumblr blog. Today I’m going to outline just a few, since there are so many. These seem to be some of the most well liked and used services available.
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Tumblr Backup App
This is the official Tumblr backup service, however it is currently only available for Mac, even after being out since 2009. Once downloaded, you can then backup parts of your blog including private and public notes, submissions, feed-imported posts, and audio files from reblogged posts. If you have a custom theme, the code is included in the backup as a separate file. You’ll have to re-run the backup on your own however – there is no scheduling option for this service. The official Tumblr Backup app is free.
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Revert.io
A free, daily backup service that can save up to 30GB of posts. Revert also gives you access to the last 30 days worth of versions so you can revert to a previous version if needed (hence the name of the service). When you go to revert a post, the post is saved as a draft on your dashboard so you can post as-is or edit if needed. The drawbacks to this service are that you can only backup one of your Tumblr URLs and that it does not back up drafts, likes, your queue, or your appearance and theme.If you really like the service, you can pay $9.99USD a month to save more data and backup more sites.
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Backup Jammy
This bare-bones tool has similar limitations to the Tumblr Backup app, however since it is web-based it works regardless of your computer type of choice. You choose your Tumblr, tell it how many posts to fetch and which types (texts, links, quotes, photos, chats, videos, songs, or everything) and it gives you an HTML file on your hard drive with your backed up information. Though minimal, this is a good alternative to the official Tumblr Backup in case you are having issues accessing Tumblr yourself.
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Frostbox
This bare-bones tool has similar limitations to the Tumblr Backup app, however since it is web-based it works regardless of your computer type of choice. You choose your Tumblr, tell it how many posts to fetch and which types (texts, links, quotes, photos, chats, videos, songs, or everything) and it gives you an HTML file on your hard drive with your backed up information. Though minimal, this is a good alternative to the official Tumblr Backup in case you are having issues accessing Tumblr yourself.
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