You visit your blog, or maybe published a blog entry, then when you visit your main blog page
you read this message from your screen.
"We're sorry... ...but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now."
It was an alarming story last night and I got into panic backing up all my blogs and save them in a folder here in my desktop after hearing a news and story from a fellow blogger who got victimized by DDOS attack in blogger.com , I just read some complains and blogger.com admins reply to all inquiries that their site has experience Denial of Service attack, I think this occur after Twitter and Facebook DDOS attack.
If you have a blog here in blogger.com, then check out this simple step on how to back up your blog
for free users of blogger.com
1. go to your blogger.com account
2. go to your dashboard and click "Settings"
3. go to "Basic" then look at the Blog Tools area
4. click Export blog then download it
5. save the xml file.
6. You an also save your template by going to "Layout"
for self hosted blogs
1. just go to your FTP client
2. go to the folder were the files are stored
3. save it to your desktop
Having your blog being hijacked or deleted is the most freaky moment of a blogger, all of it will be lost and we are not yet sure if Google.com can recovered it. My fellow blogger's blog is no longer existed, but still searchable but the main site is already deleted, she already directed this to blogger.com and they are doing what they can to recover the blog and its content.
and then this is a reply from the blogger.com admin
Like Twitter and Facebook and other services this last week, Blogger is currently under a significant DDOS attack, and the 403 messages are a temporary prevention put in place to try to squash the attack.
you can read more story here at the Help Desk Forum of Blogger
bloggers commentary:
I already saved the xml file of my blog, and I did this for the 2nd time. I received a 16mb xml file and that's the whole content of my blog from year 2003-2009. You can also back it up by publishing it too. Just create a new blog, then import the xml content. Then put it in private settings, so that the blog is visible only for you, this will serve as your back up if you want to create more back up blogs. Its better to be prepared from blog hijacks, than losing your blog content for forever.
