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Wednesday October 04, 2006

Backing up Your Roller Blog Resources

I already know how to save a local copy of all of my posts to my blog at blogs.sun.com. Now I want to save a local copy of all the resources files that I use (there are over 1100 of them).

I was hoping it would have been as simple as doing:

  % wget -r -l 2 --user=richb --password=XXXXXXXX -np http://blogs.sun.com/richb/resource

but that didn't want to work, although it has no problem with individual files in that directory. For example:

  % wget -r -l 2 --user=richb --password=XXXXXXXX -np http://blogs.sun.com/richb/resource/links.jpg

works just fine.

Therefore I needed to create a list of all the files under my resource directory, and then wget them individually.

I logged into my blog and went to the "File Uploads" page. I then used my browser's "File->Save Page As..." to save that web page.

I then wrote a simple Python script to parse that file.

Here's a few notes to describe what you need to do if you want to use this too. I'm sure there are a hundred ways to skin this cat. This is one of them. It works for me.

Save the get_files.py script to disk and set its permissions to include executable:
% chmod +x get_files.py
Replace "richb" with your Blog username.
Replace "XXXXXXXX" with your Blog password.
Save your own copy of your "File Downloads" web page and then give the full path name of that file as a parameter to the script. For example:
% get_files.py /export/home/richb/Blog/Backup/resources/uploadFiles.do.html
Your resources will be stored under a sub-directory called blogs.sun.com/<username>/resource under your current directory.