Re: Wget

[Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Thomas Droege wrote:

> I was thinking I might like to archive it every few months. Mostly just to
> have a record of progress, but also as a backup if something happened.   I
> mistakenly (probably) thought it would be smaller than the tass web site
> and started on it for practice learning wget.   I suppose if I do this late
> evening here it will by at a convenient time?  Peter, I hope this is OK
> with you?

Oh yes, it's fine by me.

The only downside is that it skews the stats for the wiki slightly, but I
don't see that being a problem ;-)

> My goal is to get it in a form where I can browse it from a local hard disk
> the same as I can from the site.

I tested it here, and it worked fine - just remember to put the first
filename inside quotes otherwise the shell interprets the & and nice
things happen ;-)

Peter

> Tom
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
> > To: Robert Creager <Robert_Creager@LogicalChaos.org>
> > Cc: TASS <tass@listserv.wwa.com>
> > Date: 8/13/2003 5:38:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: Wget
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Robert Creager wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hey Tom,
> > >
> > > My thought is that it's because wiki is driven by cgi scripts, and I'm
> not sure
> > > if you'll have much luck doing what you want to do.
> >
> > I'm not sure either. I'm trying a wget here to see how it goes.
> >
> > Anyhow the actual content is downloadable as two gzip tar files, but I'm
> > thinking tom wants it as it appears on the site?
> >
> > http://ftp.retep.net/pub/tass/wiki.tgz
> > http://ftp.retep.net/pub/tass/wiki-images.tgz
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Rob
> > >
> > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:32:20 -0500
> > > "Thomas Droege" <tdroege2@earthlink.net> said something like:
> > >
> > > > I am trying to learn to backup the web sites of interest to me, the
> wiki
> > > > and tass home page. I started with the wiki which I think is the
> smaller of
> > > > the two.
> > > >
> > > > > wget -r--convert-links http://wiki...
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >  19:49:26 up 11 days, 12:34,  4 users,  load average: 2.26, 2.17, 2.07
> > >
> >
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