SAVE YOUR BLOGGER BLOG: HOW TO BACKUP YOUR BLOG AND TEMPLATE

With the increased reports on blog shutdown by Google due to spam, fraud and other policy issues on blogger to the need of having your blog transferred to another platform, it is  imperative to save or backup your blog. This way, you stay free of being handicapped when your entire online monetary and time investment vanishes like a thin air. Another advantage of this is that you have something to fall back to if anything whatsoever goes wrong or when searching for old articles in your blog. 
There are two vital things to backup: your template and your entire blog.

SAVING YOUR TEMPLATE
Saving your template saves the structure or programming content of your blog. This need to be done as regularly as you make changes to the structure of your blog such that it is current at all times and kept in a place devoid of virus.

How to:
  + Go to Blogger.com >> Login

  + On your Blogger dashboard >> Template
  + Click on 'Backup/Restore' Button at the top right hand corner.
  + From the Popup locate and click on 'Download full Template' Button.

  + Wait for the download to complete and you are good to go.

SAVING YOUR ENTIRE BLOG
Saving your entire blog implies your entire posts, pictures and the whole lot. The procedure is similar to that above with slight changes.    

How to:
  + Go to Blogger >> Settings >> Others.
  + Locate 'Blog Tools'
  + Locate and click on 'Export Blog' Button.

+ From the Popup click on 'Download Blog' Button.

  + That's it. Wait for the download to complete and you are do