[Web4lib] policies/practices for archiving old web files?

[Edward Spodick]

We crawls our site about twice per year and archive the results - publicly accessible.
You can see the archives at http://library.ust.hk/webarch/

These only go back to 2002.  Before that, we archived the actual files from the server, but as more and more content was dependant on programs, scripts, and database retrieval, that method's utility became quite degraded.

Edward F Spodick, Information Technology Manager
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library
lbspodic at ust.hk  tel:852-2358-6743 fax:852-2358-1043

At 12:53 pm -0600 19/12/05, Reiten, Beth wrote:
>We don't do an online archive at the OSU Library; instead, I burn the
>site (actually the mirror drive where we edit the files) to CD once a
>month.  I keep a copy of these disks at my desk, and about once a year I
>make copies of the disks and deposit them into our University Archives
>like any other library publication.
>...
>-----Original Message-----
>From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
>[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Nina McHale
>Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:36 PM
>To: web4lib at webjunction.org
>Subject: [Web4lib] policies/practices for archiving old web files?
>
>Greetings, all,
>
>I'd like to hear about policies and practices that anyone is using (or
>has heard/read about) for archiving old web files.  Where do you keep
>them?  Who puts them there?  How often do you actually go and look at
>them? ;)