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Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between. 

I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +6k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search. 

Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog* 

*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted.  Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat. 

I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing: 

1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month) 2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog) 3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it) 4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not) 5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)

**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted. 

So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes. 

Backing Up a Big Tumblr Art Blog - For Mac Users

Make the below changes to the Windows instructions already posted above. DO NOT JUST DO THE BELOW STEPS ALONE!

STEP 0: For any of this to work, your blog must be visible outside Tumblr

0.1 Account –> Your Blog –> Edit appearance

0.2 Under “Visibility,” be sure “Hide blogname.tumblr.com” is OFF

0.3 If the “Password” section exists, make sure “Password protect this blog” is OFF

STEP 1:

1.4. Download the file called “Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit installer”

1.5. Install by double-clicking on the downloaded .pkg file and following the prompts. You’ll need to enter your password. You may need to change System Preferences –> Security & Privacy to allow the install.

STEP 2:

2.1 Download the “tumblr-utils.zip” file.

2.2 Downloading the file should automatically unzip it into a folder called “bbolli-tumblr-utils-30e140a” in your “Downloads” folder.

STEP 3: SKIP ALL PARTS OF THIS ENTIRE STEP

STEP 4:

4.2. Hit Command-Space and start typing the word terminal. Finder should find the Terminal application. Double-click it to run. The terminal window should open up.

4.4 (Windows only, skip.)

4.5 type cd ~/Downloads and hit return.

4.6 type cd bbolli and hit tab. Terminal should auto-complete to the entire name of the folder you downloaded in step 2 (“bbolli-tumblr-utils-30e140a”). Hit enter and you should be in that directory.

STEP 5:

5.2 type ./tumblr_backup.py yourtumblrname and watch the script do its thing.

also for step 2.2 if it doesn’t automatically unzip, just double-click it and it should unzip into the same location.  The precise file name might also be different toward the end.

Mac instructions! I just did

‘em and it all worked.