Although my web sites run on Wordpress, I usually write blog posts using Windows Live Writer (WLW), which I have installed on my desktop . Among many things I like about WLW, is the ability to easily backup my work as a file in my local PC or network drive, and to restore it in emergency cases. The utility I use in order to backup my WLW work is interestingly called “ Windows Live Writer Backup Utility” 
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The backup utility takes care not only of your recent blogs and blog drafts, but also your blog/s settings and installed plugins. Backup is kept as a *.wlwbackup file.
Note for Wordpress users : The utility doesn’t backup your blog database, themes, settings etc’, so it does not replace the great Wordpress backup plugin, that should be used periodically in order to provide a failover.
The utility can be downloaded from here.
[tags] Windows Live Writer [/tags]
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I use Windows Live Writer as well, but it doesn’t generate XHTML complaint code, so that’s a major concern for me. Hopefully, they’ll fiix it in the next version.
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