Steve Hayes wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 2009 00:17:23 +0100, Ian Goddard <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Steve Hayes wrote: >>> On Thu, 14 May 2009 13:22:35 +0100, Ian Goddard <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> www.archive.org might be one recovery route providing the site wasn't >>>> blocked. >>> And here's another: >>> >>> http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1956 >>> >>>> But the moral of this "don't put all your eggs in one basket". >>> Aye, but it's always easier to find a moral than a solution. >> On one level the solution should be obvious enough. If you're concerned >> to have material survive in the long term lodge it in as many different >> places as you can. > > I think you misunderstood me. > > The problem is not how to ensure that your material survives. > > The problem is how to preserve the material that might be lost if Yahoo! pulls > the plug on Geocities. > > This might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget But make that "*before* Yahoo! pulls the plug". -- Ian Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard at nildram co uk

Ian Goddard wrote: > Steve Hayes wrote: >> On Sat, 16 May 2009 00:17:23 +0100, Ian Goddard <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Steve Hayes wrote: >>>> On Thu, 14 May 2009 13:22:35 +0100, Ian Goddard >>>> <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> www.archive.org might be one recovery route providing the site >>>>> wasn't blocked. >>>> And here's another: >>>> >>>> http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1956 >>>> >>>>> But the moral of this "don't put all your eggs in one basket". >>>> Aye, but it's always easier to find a moral than a solution. >>> On one level the solution should be obvious enough. If you're >>> concerned to have material survive in the long term lodge it in as >>> many different places as you can. >> >> I think you misunderstood me. >> >> The problem is not how to ensure that your material survives. >> >> The problem is how to preserve the material that might be lost if >> Yahoo! pulls >> the plug on Geocities. >> >> > > This might help: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget > > But make that "*before* Yahoo! pulls the plug". > I did a quick test and one can indeed use wget -r to pull out a navigable set of pages including pdfs etc.. However, any attempt to salvage other people's content needs to take into account copyright. What were the copyright terms on material posted? Irrespective of the copyright on content there would be database copyright on the overall site. -- Ian Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard at nildram co uk