Re: Backing up a Web

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Ron,

I tried that once and it didn't work. But, since you insisted that it does, I tried again and it worked! Don't know what I did wrong the first time.

Actually, it turned out to be more than just a backup. I Published the whole Web to my desktop machine and now do all my maintenance locally then Publish back to the host. Much better practice and it works great. I remember doing this with FP 2000 under XP with IIS installed, and thoght the latter was necessary.

Thanks a bunch!

Ed

"Ronx" <ronx917@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23Vkcnz9VJHA.1244@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Publish to a folder on your PC, there is no requirement for any server (IIS or otherwise).

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Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (Expression)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

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"Ed Sowell" <jag_man__REM0VE__653@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5D347CCB-C687-4EAD-9D45-8BA0F72C829E@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

I can't seem to find a way to do full or partial local backups of our car
club Web. I can export a single file by selecting it, which activates the
Export command from the File menu, but that's not practical for a large
number of files. If I select a bunch of files they all want to open rather
than be exported. If I select the Web root or any folder the Export command
is not active... it's grayed out. When I search Help for Export it guides me
through creation of a Package which can be Exported. However, I can't do
anything with the Package, since the whole Package business seems to be
related to MS SharePoint, which is not available on my local machine or on
my host server, even though the latter has FP extensions. I've also tried
selecting and dragging folders to my local machine, but this does not copy
files, merely links to the files on the host.

I include below some suggestions from Ronx when I asked about this in
another thread. I've thought about Publishing to my local machine, but I
believe that would require me to install IIS or something, and from what
I've read that leads to a host of other problems. I tried FTP, but
apparently my hosting service doesn't support FTP. For example, if I set up
the site using WS_FTP it seems to successfully open the site, but I can't
see any of the Web files.

One big problem in all this is I have not been able to get any support from
the hosting service. The person in our Club that set this all up several
years ago has set up a succession of Webmasters with logon/admin IDs, but no
support contact info. By doing an trace I can see that the servers are
operated by CARI.com, but I suspect that they are not necessarily the
hosting service that our guy dealt with. They don't answer my email to their
customer support address.


Any suggestions?

TIA

Ed

"Ronx" <ronx917@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OE2K0iLVJHA.5236@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> If you edit live, I would place the template on the live site.
>
> The easiest way to backup is to publish to another location, such as > your
> PC. If the images are in a subweb it will be easy to publish just the > web
> without subwebs.
>
> Purely for *backup* purposes, you could use FTP to download the site - > but
> this will also download files in _vti* folders which should be deleted
> from the downloaded copy (publishing does not move any _vti* folders or
> their contents).
> --
> Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (Expression)
> Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
>
> http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
>
>


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