While I don't really believe all the "LJ is going to close" drama brought about by yesterday's sudden layoffs (I do feel for those laid off with such lack of notice or severance, though - my thoughts go out to you all!) (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, check out this post, which lays it out quite well), I did realize it would definitely be prudent to back up my LJ and Scrapbook files, which I have been quite remiss in doing to date. LJ entry backup is quite well documented at these links:

• LJ entry backup for Windows
• LJ entry backup for Mac OS X

However, Scrapbook backup is poorly documented (if at all, really). The best resource I've come across is this entry in lj_dev, which has solutions that basically don't work. So I took it upon myself to fix this situation. :)