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

[Reiten, Beth]

Edward -

Would you be willing to share a bit more information about how you do
this?  Off-list is fine, if people don't want to be pestered with this
right now.  We're not using much in the way of database-driven pages
yet, but we're moving that direction, and I know my previous method
won't be functional for much longer.

Thanks in advance!

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Beth Reiten, Asst. Professor & Librarian
Digital Library Services
Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
Phone: 405-744-9109
Email: beth.reiten at okstate.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Edward Spodick
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 7:28 PM
To: Reiten, Beth; Nina McHale; web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] policies/practices for archiving old web files?

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? ;)

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