Smart Tip: How to Restore Your Blog Backups

You learned how to make backups of your Blogger blog in the previous tutorial. Now I'm going to show you how to restore those backups when you need to (e.g. after deleting a post by mistake). Here's how you can restore your posts in 3 steps:

#1

Login to Blogger. After you log in, you will land at the Dashboard. Select the blog you need to restore by clicking on Settings.

#2

While in Basic Settings, click on Import Blog.

#3

Retrieve your blog backup from your computer by clicking on Choose File. This will bring up a file explorer or file chooser. Use the chooser to retrieve your backup. Double click the file or select it and click on Open.

Enter the CAPTCHA text and click on Import Blog. If you would like Blogger to automatically publish the imported posts, click on the checkmark to Automatically publish all imported posts.

Then, click on the huge orange button to: Import Blog.


That's it -- you're all done! :)

Note: This process is also used to migrate posts from one blog to another.