Others are backing things up because LJ is moving to a new server some distance away, and if anything went wrong and the data was corrupted or lost on transfer to the new server then you could potentially lose some or everything you have posted on LJ.
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Date: 2008-11-18 03:34 pm (UTC)Seems better to be safe than sorry!
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