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Is there a way to recover an entire website from the waybackmachine?
I have an old site that is archived but no longer have the website files to revive it again. Is there a way to recover the old data so I can get my long lost files back?
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As far as websites go, the Internet Archive stores over 448 billion pages, and you can navigate them using its Wayback Machine tool: To get started, enter the URL of the website you want to check out. The Wayback Machine will show you a graph that tracks how often copies of that website were saved over the years.
Using their "Wayback Machine" you can search their archive for a prior version of your site (and pages) which you can then use for rebuilding your page.
To remove a site from the Wayback Machine, place a robots. txt file at the top level of your site (e.g. www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt) and then submit your site below.
The Internet Archive / Wayback Machine / Archive.org will only delete pages and sites from when you took ownership, not just because you now have ownership. This is really important. So if you have bought an old domain, you're out of luck for anything older than the day you commenced ownership.
wget is a great tool to mirror an entire site and if you are on windows, you can use Cygwin to install it. The following command will mirror a site: wget -m domain.name
The example wget command that the wont ascend to the parent dir (-np), ignores robot.txt (-e robots=off), uses the cdn domain (--domains=domain.name), and mirrors a url (the url to mirror, http://an.example.com ). All together you get:
wget -np -e robots=off --mirror --domains=staticweb.archive.org,web.archive.org http://web.archive.org/web/19970708161549/http://www.google.com/
If you are dealing with https and a self signed cert, u can use --no-check-certificate to disable the certificate check. The wget help is the best place to see possible options.
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