[Paul R.]

I attempted to save the site with a program ostensibly made for that purpose, HTTrack, but get a mirror error. So far I'm unable to find a cause for the error - not that I know much about such errors. We only have until the end of June to find a way to archive the site. There has been some discussion of doing just that on a thread on the site, but none of us have any experience with this.

So far, at least, the forum "master" has not raised any objection to saving of the material for personal use, but is also not assisting and may not have any time or ideas anyway.

Do any FReepers have any experience with something like this? Maybe try some other archival program?

Thanks in advance!

[Jeff Chandler]

Is this a database driven website?

We need more info.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

wget might work.

https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/

[Jeff Chandler]

https://www.google.com/search?q=httrack+mirror+error&sca_esv=83e1b8e3588a8f5f&rlz=1C1AVFC_enUS779US780&ei=SW9vZvSrLp3GkPIPu_aroAE&ved=0ahUKEwi09PzeneGGAxUdI0QIHTv7ChQQ4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=httrack+mirror+error&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiFGh0dHJhY2sgbWlycm9yIGVycm9yMgsQABiABBiRAhiKBTIGEAAYFhgeMgsQABiABBiGAxiKBTILEAAYgAQYhgMYigUyCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFMggQABiABBiiBDIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIESIEeUPUHWLkccAF4AZABAJgBZaABxAiqAQQxMi4xuAEDyAEA-AEBmAIOoALdCcICChAAGLADGNYEGEfCAg0QABiABBiwAxhDGIoFwgIFEAAYgATCAgoQABiABBhDGIoFwgIIEAAYFhgeGA-YAwCIBgGQBgqSBwQxMS4zoAeNRg&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

[E. Pluribus Unum]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1167673/how-to-use-wget-command-on-windows-(for-recursive

[so_real]

Archiving Websites with Wget

A second vote for wget. Good luck!

[Theo]

Paul,

I’d be happy to help. I’ve been doing website stuff for over 30 years.

The simplest solution is to just use SiteSucker. Easy to use, but make sure it’s configured right or it could end up saving webpages from other sites connected to your site.

Is it a WordPress based site, or some other kind of forum that consists of files and a database?

Let me know how I can help.

[freeandfreezing]

One quick thing to check is how much if any of the site has already been archived by archive.org’s wayback machine.

[PAR35]

Anyone considered offering to buy the site and content from him?

[Jeff Chandler]

What is the URL?

[Paul R.]

The site admin says the site might be 10-20 GB. Seems too small an estimate, but then again it’s only images (pics) and text.

I tried saving a recent page with several embedded pics to pdf and Word, and both the pdf and doc files were ~ 3 MB. Embedded links appear to work (at least so long as the site is still up). Results both ways were a bit wanky (many blank pages created in Word, “chopped up” oddly in pdf form).