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How can I solve the problem to archive web and GITHUB pages which are in danger, and perserve them for the future?

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2021 10:53 am
by Peter Gamma
James, you offered help miraculously when software of a manufacturer was lost, a forum of a manufacturer was lost, in a for me personally misterious web archive. How was this done? How can I solve the problem to archive web and GITHUB pages which are in danger, and perserve them for the future?

Re: How can I solve the problem to archive web and GITHUB pages which are in danger, and perserve them for the future?

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:09 pm
by James
Visit the site at web.archive.org and they'll archive it.

Re: How can I solve the problem to archive web and GITHUB pages which are in danger, and perserve them for the future?

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:13 am
by Peter Gamma
Thanks, James, but is this safe? Is there a tool you can recommend to download the content to a PC?

Re: How can I solve the problem to archive web and GITHUB pages which are in danger, and perserve them for the future?

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:41 am
by James
I'm not sure I follow what you mean by "safe"? It's a website, it's not going to bite ;-)
If you want to download content to your own machine, there are many programs to do this. In the past I've used WebZip by SpiderSoft, but that was many years ago before archive sites like web.archive.org existed.

Re: How can I solve the problem to archive web and GITHUB pages which are in danger, and perserve them for the future?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 4:10 am
by Peter Gamma
How do you know that web.archive.org is not going to to bite? Some don't want to have their brain data in the cloud, I don't want to have content which I might depend on in the future somewhere on a website. Thanks, James.

Re: How can I solve the problem to archive web and GITHUB pages which are in danger, and perserve them for the future?

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:46 am
by James
True. Well you can try WebZIP, then.

Re: How can I solve the problem to archive web and GITHUB pages which are in danger, and perserve them for the future?

Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:18 am
by Peter Gamma
Thanks, wise advice, James.