Backup your HubPage

What if you lost your HubPage? What if you made an editing error and lost good content? What if you need a copy of a HubPage you created long ago? Don't assume that because you published the article and it is now on the publisher's servers that nothing can happen to your article!

The good news is that HubPages provides a method for you to make a backup copy of your completed HubPage article directly to your PC hard drive. Problem solved.

You can easily make a copy of your entire HubPage as a pdf file. This is the portable document file format by Adobe; this format can be displayed and printed on virtually every computer.

Some authors make a hard copy of their HubPages. I rely on an electronic copy, which is also backed up when my PC files are backed up.

You can also select sections of your HubPage article to leave off your HubPage copy file. I save the whole article. When you backup the HubPage, You do not backup ads or comments. You get initially displayed images, but not your complete slideshow, so save your images.

The steps to protect your HubPage are simple:

1. Scroll down to the bottom of your HubPage to the control buttons (just above your comments capsule). Click on "Print".
2. You get a screen headed by "Print Preview & Optimization Tools". Click on "Get pdf".
3. The software starts to generate your pdf file. While you are waiting, an advertisement screen pops up. You can hit the red X or just wait.
4. When the pdf file is completed, you get a File Download dialogue box.

• Click "Open" to view the pdf file in you pdf viewer program. You may then print or save the file.
• Click "Save" to save this pdf copy of your HubPage to your desired location.

I have a folder set up for "HubPage Copies" and just save my pdf files there.

HubPages makes it easy by providing the pdf file saving capability. What other choices are there? How do you backup your articles on article sites that don't help with the backup process?

Screen shots - You could take screen shots. You'd have to scroll and re-capture to get all of any page that didn't display completely.

Copy and paste - This would give you all of your text, and it would be in an editable format. This would be time consuming and would not get pictures and illustrations.

HubPages is a great place to publish Internet articles.

If you are new here I'd like to welcome you to Hub-ville. It's an active community of great Internet writers who are sociable and often leave helpful comments on your HubPages.

You'll find helpful suggestions on things to do before you publish your HubPage, and things to do after you publish that HubPage article.

To write great Internet articles you need some reliable tools. The basic tool is your PC and it needs to be ready when you are ready to create!

A slow PC can drain your energy when you are trying to be creative, so take some steps to speed up your PC. You are working in the wild Internet, so you need to keep the bad guys out! You need to backup all of your files including your HubPages.

When your PC is cranky and needs some service, what is better than free technical support?

The screen shots for this article were taken with a free utility called PrtScr. Speaking of free, who doesn't like free software? When you are jumping back and forth between your article draft and your research sites, you would appreciate a dual monitor display.

One of the nice things about the HubPage community is that many Hubbers (authors) share their unique HubPage experience in HubPage articles.

The community talks about getting started with hubpages and how to get traffic to hubpages and how to improve traffic to hubpages.

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