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Alice JenningsJun 4, 2026

Backup your list

Backup your list

Alice Jennings

Learn how to export your subscriber lists from MailerLite, including active, unsubscribed, and bounced contacts. This quick tutorial covers how to properly name and save your files to ensure you have a secure backup before migrating.

Backup your list

Alice Jennings

Learn how to export your subscriber lists from MailerLite, including active, unsubscribed, and bounced contacts. This quick tutorial covers how to properly name and save your files to ensure you have a secure backup before migrating.

Chapters

00:00

Introduction to Backups

Overview of the process for backing up your subscriber list.

00:10

Exporting Subscriber Data

00:26

Organizing Exported Files

01:14

Managing Different Lists

02:28

Final Data Safety Tips

Transcript

00:00

So the last thing that we're going to do is we're just going to back up our subscriber list.

00:05

so we're going to hop into subscribers and we're going to go down here.

00:10

I'm going to click export.

00:12

You can either export as a CSV or a CSV for Excel.

00:15

I don't honestly know that there's a great deal of difference.

00:18

They both work.

00:20

Once it's compiled, the report, you need to click here and then it will be downloaded.

00:26

My top, top tip to you is to then hop straight into your downloads fold.

00:33

Come on, keep up with me.

00:34

Come on.

00:36

And here it is.

00:37

So we've got my active subscribers.

00:41

I'm going to rename it straight away.

00:43

Okay, Straight, away.

00:45

So we're going to put the date, which I don't know what the date is actually today it is the 12th of the first 24th active subs Mailerlite.

01:02

Okay, so that is my active subscribers.

01:06

Now I'm going to hop back in to Mailerlite and I'm going to go here.

01:14

no, not there.

01:17

Where's my list?

01:17

Here we are.

01:18

So showing active subscribers.

01:20

Sorry, it's moved in the new mailer light so I couldn't find it because it was a drop.

01:23

It's a drop down now.

01:24

I'm also going to get my unsub.

01:27

So if you can get all these, if I, you want, unsubscribed, unconfirmed.

01:34

So that's if you've got double opt in on people who have signed up but who have not confirmed.

01:39

bounced is when we've sent the email, but they've.

01:43

The email doesn't work anymore.

01:45

So these are places that don't exist.

01:50

and you bring up each list so I can bring up my.

01:56

I see.

01:57

Keep doing it.

01:57

Clicking on the.

01:58

Bring up my unsubscribed and then I can click export.

02:04

Now look, this is why.

02:07

So this is virtually the same, isn't it?

02:09

What does this actually mean?

02:11

0837 maybe we could 24 first 12, 14, 3708.

02:19

So there is some vague usefulness to it, but honestly in six months time when you come back and you find that you'll be like, I have no idea what this was when I downloaded it.

02:28

So download your subscriber lists, your active, your unsubscribed probably are the two that I would do and pop them somewhere safe just so that you know you've got them.

02:39

Okay.

02:40

And then you're ready to migrate.

02:41

So I'll see you in the next video.

Backup your list — Tella