Importing your LiveJournal to Dreamwidth as a private backup

[azurelunatic]

1. Have a LiveJournal with years of entries and comments you'd really like backed up elsewhere in case of ... stuff.


2. Refrain from using the LiveJournal mass privacy edit tool. (Last I heard, use of the tool would put entries into a state that could not be imported through conventional means.)


3. Know your LiveJournal username and password.


4. If necessary, reset your LiveJournal password if it is lost, or if you know your LiveJournal password but want to give Dreamwidth a temporary one, reset your LiveJournal password using the old one.


5. Have (or create) a Dreamwidth account.


6. On Dreamwidth, set Organize: Manage Account: Privacy: Minimum Entry Security to "Just Me (Private)". This will ensure that the imported entries are set to Private as they come in.


7. On Dreamwidth, use the Organize: Import Content tool: select LiveJournal, then enter your LiveJournal username and password.


8. Proceed with the import.


9. Wait for the import to finish.


10. Once the import has finished, restore the Dreamwidth Organize: Manage Account: Privacy: Minimum Entry Security to your regular setting.


11. If you used a temporary password for the import, reset your LiveJournal password to something you will remember long-term.

If you are the maintainer of a LiveJournal community, you can use basically the same process to privately back up your community, even if you don't want to fully migrate.

Comments

[pauamma]

Is #2 still true?

[azurelunatic]

I don't know if using it now will fuck things up, but I believe sithjawa is
still unimportable.