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Tumblr Releases Backup Application

The Tumblr Backup app is ready for its first beta testing.

Download (Mac OS X, requires 10.5 or higher)

Unlike other publishing sites’ approach to backups, our goal was to create a useful copy of your blog’s content that can be viewed on any computer, burned to a CD, or hosted as an archive of static HTML files.

Wherever possible, we use simple file formats. Our backup structure is optimized for Mac OS X’s Spotlight for searching and Quick Look for browsing, and we’ll try to use the same structure and achieve the same benefits on other platforms.

via marco.org

When I switched to Posterous, choosing it over Tumblr, one of my concerns was a lack of an easy backup solution. Today Tumblr released a backup application that looks impressive.

Doing a search in the Posterous forums I found this question on possible backup solutions. Here's what Sachin Agarwal, a Posterous cofounder of Posterous, said on the matter back in May:

We have been rolling out an API over the past couple weeks. You can see it here:
posterous.com/api
The next set of features here will be to allow reading of an entire posterous site. You will then be able to write tools to export/backup from posterous.

Lame. Score one for Tumblr.