[thelist] Snapshotting a website?

[Liam Delahunty]

on 26/08/2004 21:16 Chris Kavanagh wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know of a good way I can verifiably "snapshot" their 
> existing site, in case my friend should later need proof that it wasn't 
> there?
> 

make a directory, say sucked_sites, cd into it, then
wget sitename.tld
that will attempt to download the site. You should read the manual first 
as you may want to limit how much you attempt to download.

wget www.sitename.co.uk -r

-r --recursive
Recursive  web-suck.  According  to  the  protocol  of the URL, this can 
mean two things. Recursive retrieval of a HTTP URL means that Wget will 
download the URL you want, parse it as an  HTML  document  (if  an HTML 
document it is), and retrieve the files this document is referring to, 
down to a certain depth (default 5; change it with -l).  Wget will 
create a hierarchy of directories locally, corresponding to the one 
found on the HTTP server.

The directory dates are as created by wget, but the file dates are as on 
the original server. wget will create a directory called 
www.sitename.co.uk, the site is sucked into it.

Cool as !

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