How Do You Archive A Web Site?
If you use a Web site to conduct business or just to keep in touch with a network of friends, you may want to have records of what you have sent or posted on the site. If you archive a Web site and its contents, you have a snapshot in time of the site and what it contained. Use a Web spider to find your Web site. Download the information the Web spider captures to your computer as a snapshot of what is on your Web site. File and date on the hard drive and make backup copies as needed. Backup the entire Web site directly. Download the entire contents of your site to your computer for storage. This has the advantage of being virtually free. Record the different responses generated by your Web site. This can be a more expensive endeavor because you have to analyze the information as responses are generated by the server without messing up Web page performance. Use specialized archiving software. The software uses a combination of the techniques listed here to archive your Web site. The do
