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  1. I host my own wordpress site and would like to set up a duplicate of it on wordpress.com so is there a way to transfer all the post, and comments from my original site to wordpress.com

    I see it possible to transfer others such as moveable type but see nothing about wordpress.

  2. If you're using the latest WordPress.org software, you should be able to go to Dashboard > Manage > Export and download an xml file that will contain your posts and comments. Then on your WP.com blog, if you go to Dashboard > Manage > Import there's an option for WordPress right at the bottom. If you follow the instructions you shouldn't have any problems.
    http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/how-do-i-move-between-blogs-2/

    One thing: mirror blogs are allowed but you'll probably want to set your WP.com blog to private if you're using it as a backup to avoid any problems with Technorati or Google.
    http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=12654&page&replies=16

  3. Thanks. So how do I set up my wp.com blog as a mirror site - even though set as private.

  4. You go to Dashboard > Options > Privacy to set it to private; that should stop your blog from appearing on Google or anywhere like that, as long as you don't link to it in your other blog.

    To make it a mirror backup of your other blog, just post to both blogs when you have a new post (use could use something like http://www.blogdesk.org/en/index.htm to make it simple) or every now and then repeat the import that you did before. Hope that helps.

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