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Poster: Tucker Drake Date: Jan 10, 2024 10:52pm
Forum: general Subject: I Have an Archive of a Site That's Better Than IA's Copy

I know just enough about this stuff to be dangerous but not enough to comprehend if someone starts saying, "Well, you're going to have to SSH in via port socket :39..."

The particular site is no longer on the web, so if anyone wants to see what was posted there (and it deals with some historical figures, with posts made by people who actually knew them) they have to come here to find it. I'd like to be able to upload what I have (either as a .zip file or just by pointing to the folder of the expanded contents on my machine) so that anyone wanting to find the contents can do so. It's not anything different than what one would be able to get from the Wayback Machine were it to be available. (So, it's not like the backup was made from the data hosted on the server where the site once lived.)

Is there a way for me to do this that doesn't involve a lot of effort on my part? Or is this one of those things that's possible, but you gotta really know what you're doing with specific software to actually accomplish it?

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Poster: fuck archive.org Date: Feb 12, 2024 5:22am
Forum: general Subject: Re: I Have an Archive of a Site That's Better Than IA's Copy

As TechLord suggested, if you upload the .zip file people can reconstruct the page from your files or probably at least see the basic layout & text automatically on archive.org (even though it won't be in the Wayback machine)

A lot of web browsers can also do whole-page screenshots. Reformatting the screenshots in PNG grayscale mode helps with loading. If the contents are simple text, you can also archive the text and zip file in one page online by using pastebins that allow attachments like https://paste.ononoki.org/ or other open-source privatebin instances found at https://privatebin.info/directory/

The Wayback Machine can archive these pastebins, including the attachments
This post was modified by Holbrook Stark on 2024-02-12 13:22:55

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Poster: TechLord Date: Jan 21, 2024 12:38pm
Forum: general Subject: better than nothing

Why not upload it to https://archive.org/upload ?