Re: What is a ".webarchive"?

On 2008-10-26 10:32:21 -0700, Dan Stephenson <stephedanospam@xxxxxxx> said:

Thanks for the replies; in short, I bit the bullet and re-created the missing sites.

Regarding backup: I actually did have a daily backup of my Documents folder and Settings. (all my movies and iPhoto libraries are accessed on the wireless via my olden iMac). But since the Domain file is not by default in the Documents folder it got irregularly backed-up.

Now, I _seem_ to have it set up to load the Domain from my Documents folder (I moved the backup Domain there, deleted the one in Library/Application Support, and when iWeb started it asked me to pick a Domain, and I picked the one in Documents). And so it now gets backed-up every day.

Interestingly, although the Domain file appears monolithic, when I did an incremental backup after re-creating those missing sites, there delta-backup size was only a few megabytes, not the huge Domain file size. So that tells me the Domain is sufficiently interpretable by Backup 3 to do incremental backups.

No, I don't use Time Machine even though my new MacBook Pro has Leopard. This is because Time Machine doesn't work wireless except for Apple's product. But I figure with daily Backup 3 backups, I'm pretty safe.

I manually duplicate ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Domain.sites2 to a secondary file within the same folder and came any number of them there; currently seven or eight. There are some iWeb utilities that let you swap around such files, as they exist for iTunes and iPhoto, but I can't get into the habit of using them. In any case I have had extended activity in some of my web sites that needed to be removed so I duped and archived the domain file and set it aside.

All these others are just for my sense of safety. I change a few pages here and there, or add more entries to a blog or something but it's nothing particularly critical. When it is a major sea change or expansion or diminuation of the web-stie I dupe the Domain.sites2 file yet again and probably delete two of the older ones.

This works for me and I've never really had a need for one since I started doing this. May it always be so.
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