Website backup?

[jarigo2]

Does anyone have any ideas or tips for backing up a website? Essentially what I would like to do is to store my entire htdocs (on the powweb webftp) folder on my computers external hard drive, just in case powweb dies on me.

I have bits and pieces of the site stored on the hard drive, but figuring out what goes where would be practically impossible b/c of how much I update and change things around (the site is growing constantly). I create the website by writing html in notepad and then uploading the .html and .jpgs through powweb's webftp. To me, this seemed to be a pretty quick and dirty way to get a site up.

Can the .htdocs folder from my webftp be copied to a external drive or would I have to download each and every file?

Thanks for any suggestions.
John
http://www.ScooterTheCocker.com

[stevel]

There is a way in Member Operations to download a ZIP of your site, but if you have a local copy of the site and upload changes, you have the backup already, yes? This is the way I do my development.

[IanS]

I download a full site backup, file by file, rather than a zipped version. That way I get a fully operational site at my computer easily. It may take a little longer, but I can set it to go and leave it to download. Alterations are then easy to make, I simply tell the software to upload those files that have changed.

[jarigo2]

Ok, I think I found out where to download a zipped version of my entire site. I clicked on download and I get this:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@scooterthecocker.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

[IanS]

Before you can download a zipped copy, you need to create a zipped copy surely.....?

[jarigo2]

No, I was in the wrong area. I went to site backup. I should have gone to file explorer. From File explorer I could download all or individual files. Now I have the entire site (which is only jpgs and .htmls) on my hard drive.

thanks so much guys!

[bigdoug]

I too would like to zip a back up so I treid and This is what I get:

Software error:
Out of memory during "large" request for 1052672 bytes, total sbrk() is 66568192 bytes at /powweb/perl/PowWeb/Web/SiteManager/Backups.pm line 55, <ZIP> line 132088.

Please send mail to this site's webmaster for help. Content-type: text/html
Software error:
END failed--call queue aborted at /powweb/web/sitemanager/index.cgi line 55, <ZIP> line 132088.

Please send mail to this site's webmaster for help.

Could someone guide me on this?


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[IanS]

You've found the right method, just you can't zip the entire site into one file (as far as I can see from the error message). Break it down into smaller chunks.