Retrieving old content.

by **Squiggle** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:33 pm

Perhaps this might be of some use:
http://www.cs.odu.edu/~fmccown/research ... rrick.html

by **zeryl** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 9:41 pm

Thanks for the link. I'm gonna see what I can grab from the old site.

by **ScratchMonkey** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:47 pm

What DB was used to hold the old site? Did no one run a dump?

I put a copy of the Linux scripts I use to backup my MySQL DB here:

http://matureasskickers.net/ftp/Misc/DBbackup.tar.gz

One script does the backup, and the other invokes it from cron and scp's the result to my home server early every morning. Each backup has the timestamp in it's name so they don't overwrite each other.

You could also incorporate a couple lines to "svnadmin dump" your Subversion DB and send it to the offsite server.

by **zeryl** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:35 pm

zeryl wrote:Thanks for the link. I'm gonna see what I can grab from the old site.

I grabbed a grand total of 5 files. Nothing worth keeping (the old PHPBB FAQ, group list, memberslist).

by **ScratchMonkey** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:54 pm

I recall that none of the forums were visible when not logged in, so I doubt any of the caches could get at them to screen-scrape the contents.

by **Slack** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:29 pm

I didn't try the Warrick tool but I tried using http://web.archive.org which snapshots websites and archives them by date. It's a pretty rich tool. The problem when I try this site is this website uses a robot.txt file to exclude crawlers. This probably means Warrick won't come back with anything nor will any search engines.