Wayback Machine - Save Website

[richo]

Those of you concerned about Pbase.com going under and perhaps losing all of your comments and images you should check out the Wayback Machine at: https://archive.org/web/
I have used this to retrieve web pages from sites I created over 10 years ago. While the Internet Archive does not regularly visit all sites each day, you can request an archive to be created on demand - See the "Save Page Now" form in the lower right.

[hjsteed]

Will this save entire websites? I have over 4000 photo galleries that should be backed up.

[richo]

Will this save entire websites? I have over 4000 photo galleries that should be backed up.

It regularly saves entire websites. You can go and see when the last archive of your pbase.com galleries was done and click through it. Make note of the URL as it does it.
At the top of the home page - https://archive.org/web/ you can enter your pbase.com url and it will bring up a calendar showing when in the past years it has archived your galleries. This year it hit mine two times and the last was June. However you can also enter your url in the form entry "Save Page Now" and see if it will do more than one page. It worked for me on this smaller gallery that has subgalleries: http://www.pbase.com/richo/sa

It does not save all sizes of the images, so this would be mostly to save the comments attached to the images and galleries.

If you do a google search on how to save an entire website offline several different options come up and one that is mentioned several times is http://www.httrack.com/. I have not tried this and I do not necessarily recommend or not recommend it.

For backing my images, I store them in folders that match my pbase.com galleries and then I back up those folders to two external drives and store one drive off site. This way I have the processed image and the Photoshop psd file save together.

[hjsteed]

Thank you very much for the reference, Richo.

A number of years ago, I was concerned about not having a public backup of my photo galleries and asked the Internet Archive to back them up. They did this for several years since 2004. There were 2 backups in June 2015 according to their feedback, but I was not able to see what was backed up.

I would like to leave these galleries for the Library of Congress records, but am not sure they would be interested or if PBase would give them permission to do this.

I appreciate your help in providing this information.

With all best wishes, Hubert

[danpolley]

Those of you concerned about Pbase.com going under and perhaps losing all of your comments and images you should check out the Wayback Machine at: https://archive.org/web/
I have used this to retrieve web pages from sites I created over 10 years ago. While the Internet Archive does not regularly visit all sites each day, you can request an archive to be created on demand - See the "Save Page Now" form in the lower right.

Thank you for the post. Sadly, the management of Pbase doesn't even care enough to respond .