Feb 23 2009
BackupUrl Might Come In Handy
BackupURL lets you enter a website address and then it immediate creates a backup copy of the site with it’s own url address. All the links remain live, and when I tried it with my website I was pleasantly surprised to find that it actually copied all the pages of my site and not just the one page address I had entered.
It’s different from other online back-up programs in that they will create a copy of a site that you can access and then “re-launch” if you lose all your data, and you have to register for them. Those also automatically update new additions (I’ll be creating a “The Best…” list about them).
BackupUrl sort of “takes a picture in time” and makes it immediately accessible. If you want to update it, you have to enter the site address again and get a new url address for that updated site.
It could definitely come in handy for me since very infrequently my website (with 9,000 categorized links accessible to English Language Learners) might go off-line temporarily. Having a back-url will be useful because students could just use that instead.
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Yes, I agree that this is a good tool.
One question I have is: can anyone backup your website? If they do, will this not raise a copy right issues? Where is the backed up file location? Whether in one’s desktop or at the “BackupURL” site, if a site is copied without permission, I believe that, it is a copy right violations.
I would certainly not allow anyone out there (this could include competitors) to backup my website. If they only allow the site owner to backup a site by using some verification, such as webmaster@sitename.com email address, then it will be great. Otherwise, I will definitely talk to my lawyer to sue the company for facilitating such a service, and the violators.
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Hi
Thank you for the blog post telling people about our site. It is much appreciated.
To Jas
Hi
Are you aware that Yahoo, Google, Archive.org all have a cache of your website that anyone can access?
Please give me your website URL so I can blacklist it if you would like.
Thanks
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@BackupURL:
The difference between the search engines you mentioned (Yahoo, Google, etc.) and your site is that: Those search engines are meant to search, and they give you an option to opt out, I am not sure if you allow this or not.
As Jas said, you should have some kind of verification system instead.
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