Can I get copy of the site?

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SteveR
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Can I get copy of the site?

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Greetings!

Nothing lasts forever, especially on the world wide web! If I wanted a copy of this site, how much would it cost and what would I store it on?

Thanks,
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Re: Can I get copy of the site?

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I'll bring this to the owner's attention.

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Re: Can I get copy of the site?

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After all of these years, the website and associated content are huge.
I am not sure making a copy would be practical.
I do make regular incremental backups to a server located at a different site.

Also, just doing a copy of the database would also include personal information on the members, which
needs to be kept private.
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Re: Can I get copy of the site?

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This may be possible to do without getting personal data or even involving the site admin. As it is a phpBB forum you can follow the advise on this post on how to scrape all the posts to your hard drive. It will require some computer literacy though.

https://superuser.com/questions/116201/ ... hpbb-forum
https://github.com/Dascienz/phpBB-forum-scraper

Essentially just search for "phpBB forum scraper" and you may get lucky with something that will work.
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