We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
wow I didn't know they we're closing down.
I learned game modding/translation from that xentax and zenhax and just retired last year.
I've never backup a site before, but I do have some self-hosting knowledge, any guide out there that will help me back up the site?
People who want to be forgotten deserve to be forgotten, usually. But data is data. Once it's "out there", the only thing you control is your response to it.
What backups from the internet Archive do you suggest downloading? The one with 2 stars, that the one?
I've seen full, functional backups of the forum go offline after he's requested they be taken down.
So it's possible to create a full backup then, as others have done it. Is there something stopping someone from doing it again?
If anyone actually has the backup copy. Message me. I have some options on hosting it for greater consumption.
Use a Large Language Model to ingest the entire forum. Then you could ask it anything and get an answer devoid of personal information. I can't recommend any particular tool, however. And, of course, this approach does not deliver anything like the same experience as browsing an anonymized forum. For some purposes it would be better, for some worse. Some responses would be wrong or just garbage.
Does anyone here know how to do this with httrack?
Passing cookies did nothing but archive the main page onlgonl