![]() It might be prudent to ask your web hosting service if they can make a back up for you, or require back ups of your site as a standard part of the service they provide. At best, an archive or backed up site is indeed a ‘snapshot’, and cannot save flowing information.īacking up or download remotely hosted sites may take a considerable amount of time, not to mention large storage capacity and bandwidth, which may incur the wrath of your IT department. Since so many sites contain dynamic content (that is, the content changes frequently), backing up a site may seem impossible. On many sites, once per week or even once per month may suffice. If static information changes daily, then backing up once a day seem reasonable. How frequently should a site be archived? That depends on many factors, chiefly among them the motivation for making the copy. In 2003, The Internet Archive co-founded the IIPC, the International Internet Preservation Consortium, along with12 International Libraries, recognizing the importance of international collaboration, standards and best practices for preserving Internet content for future generations. The Internet Archive has the largest public web archive in existence, comprising 200 billion pages, and over 85 million websites in 40 languages. Issues such as protection and ownership of intellectual property and copyrighted materials are topics best covered (and are, extensively) elsewhere. Saying these applications are created for illegally downloadingĬontent rather, their names appear to imply this purpose.) Names of which seem to appeal to persons who intend to 'rip'. Among these are applications such as Picture Rippers, Gallery Grabber, iMeMiner, PictoGrab, DeepVacuum, SiteSucker, or WebGrabber, the (‘ripping’) of photographs, audio files, and video files and otherĬontent from virtually any site. Method for archiving also enable fast, high-volume downloading ProfHacker in the Chronicle of Higher Education online featured an article in March 2010 entitled "A Few Ways to Back Up Your Website", which includes information about capturing database content, and about using features from your PC control panel that may help with web back ups. ![]() This article focuses on sites remotely hosted by a hosting service. Some may be pursuing ‘cloud’ storage for off site backup. Many organizations use redundant servers to provide instantaneous back up of sites. ![]() Perhaps the greatest motivation is for back up, in case of server failure and lost or corrupted files (or accidental destruction or erasure when updating). Libraries, museums, or various information services may be among these clients. Similar to record-keeping, archival may appeal to organizations who simple want to keep previous versions of their site, much like earlier print publications. Web owners may also want to keep records to prove compliance to regulations such as HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), or FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act). Record keeping might appeal to corporations where content may provide commercial reference for products, services, warranties, features, or liabilities.
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