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BackupURL creates, archives web snapshots
Plenty of options exist for the odd time you want to capture a web page exactly the way you see it. BackupURL is an interesting new option - think of it as an on-demand Wayback Machine.
Just copy and paste a URL and press the backup button, and a truncated link is created for you. For example, the TSN page above - its content has likely changed if you visit the original link, but the BackupURL snapshot is perfectly preserved.
There are some limitation. It shouldn't come as a suprise that some Flash elements and embedded videos won't be captured. Still, BackupURL is a handy way to capture pages where content changes frequently.
There isn't much information on the site just yet, so I wouldn't recommend using BackupURL for archiving anything of critical importance. At least not until they provide some important details like how long your snapshots will be saved.
Just copy and paste a URL and press the backup button, and a truncated link is created for you. For example, the TSN page above - its content has likely changed if you visit the original link, but the BackupURL snapshot is perfectly preserved.
There are some limitation. It shouldn't come as a suprise that some Flash elements and embedded videos won't be captured. Still, BackupURL is a handy way to capture pages where content changes frequently.
There isn't much information on the site just yet, so I wouldn't recommend using BackupURL for archiving anything of critical importance. At least not until they provide some important details like how long your snapshots will be saved.
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downloadsquad said 10:00AM on 2-23-2009
Neat idea, but didn't work for me. You click on the generated url and its the same page as the backup home page. Curious if images are archived also, or just the links to those images.
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Bond said 7:30PM on 2-24-2009
Working now. I backed up all my websites. Neat tool!
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