How to back up a website

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Being able to download a website – and view it offline could be very beneficial. There are many websites out there that are just loaded with great information. Once the power goes out they are gone – right? Wrong! You can easily save entire websites to your personal computer, external hard drive, or USB drive. All it takes is a small program called WinHTTrack.

Once you download and install WinHTTrack – play with it a little backing up a few websites. It is not difficult, but depending upon the website you may have to alter the default settings. If you have any issues – you can access the FAQ & Troubleshooting Guide.

After I messed with the program settings a little – I was able able to download the entire SurvivalBlog.com website – which took a few hours. You can imagine that being able to download a massive website like that – and place it on a USB drive to take with you and access at anytime has it’s benefits.

I have numerous websites related to gardening, medical/emergency first aid treatment, general survival, tactics, etc. all backed up on USB thumb drives – fully accessible on any PC.

Pretty neat and figured I would pass the info on to you.

Take care -

Rourke

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Information | Rourke July 9, 2010

4 Comments to “How to back up a website”

By Suburban Survivalist, July 10, 2010 @ 2:12 am

Yep,

http://suburbansurvivalist.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/saving-websites/

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By Rourke, July 10, 2010 @ 9:23 am

Hey Suburban –

Looks familiar!!

Great minds think alike……

Rourke
By Macumazahn, July 11, 2010 @ 9:14 pm

FYI, your first link is broken. It points to http://modernsurvivalonline.com/how-to-back-up-a-website/www.httrack.com/ which just nets a 404.

Spidering websites is definitely a good way to collect a lot of information but it can also cause trouble. Small sites are often run on a small (or nonexistent) budget. A big spike in traffic can cause their site to be taken down or run them up a big bill. Large sites have systems in place that can detect spiders. You might find you have downloaded a large pile of empty files.

I have never used HTTrack but from a quick look at the settings you should be fine if you set “Max connections / second” to two or three and “Max transfer rate” to 50-100.

After all, we don’t want want anyone to accuse the Internet of not being polite enough.
By Rourke, July 11, 2010 @ 9:26 pm

Broken link fixed –

Thanks for the heads up –

Rourke