How to EASILY backup ?

[doowopper]

Perhaps you know this or perhaps it is not easy enough from your perspective. I have found the following very easy to do and I have lots of photos on my pbase page. Just right click on each full size photo and choose, "save image as," onto your hard drive. If you click on a thumbnail instead and do the above, only the thumbnail will be saved.
Richard
http://www.pbase.com/doowopper

[srijith]

Perhaps you know this or perhaps it is not easy enough from your perspective. I have found the following very easy to do and I have lots of photos on my pbase page. Just right click on each full size photo and choose, "save image as," onto your hard drive. If you click on a thumbnail instead and do the above, only the thumbnail will be saved.
Richard
http://www.pbase.com/doowopper

I think lowspeed wants something more automated

[lowspeed]

Perhaps you know this or perhaps it is not easy enough from your perspective. I have found the following very easy to do and I have lots of photos on my pbase page. Just right click on each full size photo and choose, "save image as," onto your hard drive. If you click on a thumbnail instead and do the above, only the thumbnail will be saved.
Richard
http://www.pbase.com/doowopper

I think lowspeed wants something more automated

Indeed

[juliano]

Perhaps you know this or perhaps it is not easy enough from your perspective. I have found the following very easy to do and I have lots of photos on my pbase page. Just right click on each full size photo and choose, "save image as," onto your hard drive. If you click on a thumbnail instead and do the above, only the thumbnail will be saved.
Richard
http://www.pbase.com/doowopper

I think lowspeed wants something more automated

Indeed

Srijith, you are our only hope! did you figure it out ?

[juliano]

I did try on my album and it worked ok. I will not be able to do anything till Monday. Then I will take a swing at your album and let you know.

[juliano]

I did try on my album and it worked ok. I will not be able to do anything till Monday. Then I will take a swing at your album and let you know.

What a timing for backup ... ah ?

Thanks... PM me the setting file if you can.

[juliano]

I really do not understand why people do not/did not do this before uploading them to Pbase.

[lowspeed]

I really do not understand why people do not/did not do this before uploading them to Pbase.

Well those pics are old... got lost somehow, you know how it is.

[lowspeed]

So anyone with a solution ?

i'm sure a lot of people want to backup thier gallery.

[srijith]

Will give it an try on your albums tomorrow and let you know.

[ferds]

Any updates? Does it work?

[ferds]

BUMP

[joesimages]

FTP access would solve this easily along with giving a LOT of additional benefits...sigh.

[liu]

Bump.

Being able to do a straight forward and meaningful backup (i.e. export a tar/zip file) is one of the top features I desire.

[sdowen]

I've been looking to find a way at backing up my PBase files. I have a lot of time invested in setting up these galleries and I'd be very unhappy if something happened to PBase and everything was lost. As far as I can tell, a means of backup has been on the most requested features list for a very long time, but since there seems to be no other way, I took matters into my own hands.

I have all of the photos backed up on my PC (and even in an OFF SITE hard drive which you should all do too!), but I wanted to capture all of the galleries, comments, etc. Pretty much get a complete mirror of http://www.pbase.com/sdowen/

I tried pbgrab and while that did get (most of) the images, it isn't what I wanted.

So I used HTTrack ( http://www.httrack.com/ ). I found a bunch of messages on this forum (and in this thread) about it and only a couple of people actually got it to do what they wanted. I tried it and it wouldn't get the full structure. So I posted some questions on the HTTrack forum and did some testing and lo and behold I have an easy solution that seems to work!

Here's the settings to get it to work:

Hit the options button and then change these settings:

In "scan rules", put only the following (in this order):

-*
+*/username/*
+*.jpg

If you don't want small and medium pictures I think you can add -*/medium.html and -*/small.html, but I didn't try it.

In "spider", set Spider: to "no robots.txt rules". I don't know if this is necessary, but it seemed like a good idea just in case.

In "browser ID", change it to something other than the default. I picked the first one on the list.

In "links", check "Get non-HTML files related to a link" and leave "Attempt to detect all links" checked.

All of the other settings should be left on their defaults.

At this point, I ask that you be gentle to PBase. My galleries use about 400Mb of my 500Mb storage. With all of additional files, small and medium pictures, etc, that pushed the whole mirror over 500Mb. That's a big chunk of bandwidth.

So there you go. I'd be interested in seeing if this works for anyone else.

If you find this useful, I ask one favor... go to my galleries at http://www.pbase.com/sdowen/ and comment on an image... good or bad. I think the only way I'm going to continue to improve as a photographer is if I get feedback.

-Steve