Backing-Up a Website to your hard-drive

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i've been thinking about websites being taken down,
and the ways to back-up a website to my hard-drive.

i was recommended a program called wget which is a little complicated.

it works though.

here is the main program: http://www.christopherlewis.com/WGet/wget-1.10.2b.zip
here is the interface for it: http://www.jensroesner.de/wgetgui/data/wgetgui.zip

you copy the files from both into the same folder
(without the interface you have to type in commands with the dos prompt)

there are other programs that back-up websites too,
and i'll add them as i test them.

please add your own favourite programs and methods for backing up websites.

as well as:
easily keeping the back-up up-to-date with the webbased-site;

it should be easy to use or have the best options;

and as easy to then upload the files in order to create a mirror on your webspace of the site.

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you can simply save file as in internet explorer and set to web page complete. and then save it to its own folder.

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that's a good way to save a page,
but what about the whole website, not just a page.

a site with a hundred or hundreds of pages would take a long time to archive that way.

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	stOneskull wrote:
	that's a good way to save a page, but what about the whole website, not just a page. a site with a hundred or hundreds of pages would take a long time to archive that way.

USE firefox, dont touch "internet explorer" as its so full of holes, it makes swiss cheese look solid!!!
In firefox you go to "file" then "save page as" and it saves it as whatever you want
cheers
chris

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stOneskull wrote:

i've been thinking about websites being taken down,
and the ways to back-up a website to my hard-drive.

i was recommended a program called wget which is a little complicated.

it works though.

here is the main program: http://www.christopherlewis.com/WGet/wget-1.10.2b.zip
here is the interface for it: http://www.jensroesner.de/wgetgui/data/wgetgui.zip

you copy the files from both into the same folder
(without the interface you have to type in commands with the dos prompt)

well... dos if you must but i prefer a term myself. (bsd/linux)

--> wget -m -w1 --convert-links "website" <--

-m = mirror
-w1 = wait 1 (or more) sec till next try (so as not to overload server)
--convert-links = convert the page links to local

if you are starting at other than the main page and do not wish to go "up" to all the other pages use:

--no-parent , this will only get pages "below" the page your starting at.

quick and easy for standard site's, not so hot for php site's though. best us httrack for that.

Tripled

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i found an excellent free program:

http://www.httrack.com/

play around with that one.

it creates a cool index of your categories,
so you can browse the sites on your hard drive.

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	stOneskull wrote:
	i found an excellent free program: http://www.httrack.com/ play around with that one. it creates a cool index of your categories, so you can browse the sites on your hard drive.

Nice program Smile

Sweet that its a linux to windows migrated program so its unlikely its got any spyware Wink

Cheers
Chris

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This kind of stuff borders on DOS attack and bandwidth theft. Please don't bring it up here again.