Re: [PLUG] archiving websites

[McLinux <mclinux@myrealbox.com>]

Try out HTTrack, Cool Stuff, but this won't help you in generating 
dynamic pages.

HTH.

-McLinux
Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 09:35:08PM -0500, M. Jackson Wilkinson wrote:
>  
>
> >  [23 lines, 142 words, 1035 characters]  Top characters: e_itnsol
> >
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > The college for which I work is redesigning their website, and in the 
> > process wants to archive their current site for posterity's sake.  Since 
> >  all of the pages are dynamically-generated, it doesn't make much sense 
> > from an archival standpoint to simply copy the web tree to disk, and we 
> >  want to find a way to archive the site as it's generated.
> >
> > Have any of you been in a similar situation and found a solution?  We 
> > want something flexible so we can say "start at this URL and go 3 levels 
> > deep, but don't archive jpgs and gifs" and modify those parameters as is 
> > appropriate.
> >
> > Heretrix looks like it could be in the right direction, but it clearly 
> > isn't ready yet...
> >    
>
> man wget
>
> I do this often enough that I made an alias:
>
>    jeff@asterix:jeff $ type mirror
>    mirror is a function
>    mirror ()
>    {
> 	echo fast mirror;
> 	wget --no-host-directories --convert-links --mirror --no-parent $1
>    }
>    jeff@asterix:jeff $
>
>  

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