[Zope] Backup

[Paul Winkler]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 07:33:43AM -0700, Dennis Allison wrote:
> Zope stores its methods in its OODB.  The actual bits are in a file
> called Data.fs.  If you instructor is going to view what you did,
> you'll need to provide a complete working Zope implementation with 
> your stuff, or you'll need to give him access to running system.
> Were I the instructor, I'd prefer the latter.

Another option, if your site is (from the user's POV) just static
stuff without functionality like search or whatever...
make a static mirror of the site. On unix, I've had good results 
with wget using these options:

wget -r -l7 -p -nH -nc -np -k -E http://

Read the man page to learn what those all do.
You won't end up with an exact link-for-link mirror (some things
will be renamed and some pages will be represented with
directories) but the result should be very browseable. 

For this to work well, you want to be *very* wary of using 
using relative links in page framework stuff like standard_html_header
etc. They can lead easily to redundant copies of images & pages, and the 
"infinite growing URL" problem which you can read about in the 
mailing list archives. Best solution is liberal use of the absolute_url 
method. The -l7 option to wget stops it from trying to download
infinitely (it limits the recursion to 7 levels in this case).


> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Rex McKanry wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > This I think is the last thing I need to do for the
> > school project I'm on. I want to copy or backup the
> > website I created on to a CD for flash drive to put it
> > on a CD to turn it in to the instructor. I've looked
> > for the files and can't seem to find them. I found the
> > Extension folder and have my external methods saved
> > but can't find the actual web pages. Does anyone have
> > any ideas?? The web pages are just off the root when
> > I'm in Zope in a sub-folder.
> > 
> > Thanks, All of you have been a great deal of help with
> > this project. I think Zope may have won me over from
> > asp.
> > Rex
> > 
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