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--- diy:archival [2024/11/19 02:22] – created Humphrey Boa-Gart
+++ diy:archival [2024/12/14 07:48] (current) – [Archival 101] Humphrey Boa-Gart
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 ====== Archival 101 ======
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+**Archival** is a crucial skill for many [[diy:ops|operations]]. Things vanish from the internet all the time, so it helps to have copies of the data that informs your operations for future reference. Local archives are also easier to dig back up as you don't have to search for the same things over and over again, and you can also access them offline.
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-===== Archival Tools =====
+==== Taking Screenshots ====
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+===== Archival Tools =====
+Not everything can be simply be downloaded with the //"Save"// command in your browser. Some things require a few steps or specialized tools to download in a way where they are easily accessible. How you archive things depends on the type of content you are archiving. Web pages, images, video, etc, all require different methods and/or tools to save copies of them.
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 === Online Services ===
+//elaborate here eventually//
   * [[https://archive.today]]
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 === Local Mirrors ===
-  * [[tools:wget|Wget]]
+== Print to PDF ==
+In some cases, you can use your web browser's **Print to PDF** function to grab a portable copy of a web page. This has the advantage of stripping out anything nasty //(like tracking code)// from the page, which you definitely don't want firing off and phoning home from your personal computer.
+== Local HTML Mirrors ==
+Print to PDF is not always ideal. Not all web sites render well in print view, and in those cases you will probably want to opt for creating a **local mirror** of the page. For this you can use [[tools:wget|Wget]]. There are several ways you can run ''wget'', but one of the easiest is:
+  wget -mpEk <target url here>
+== Page Scrapers ==
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+==== Audio & Video ====
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