Need ideas for archiving SharePoint pages and content to local server?

Question

What's the best way to archive SharePoint pages and/or content onto a local hard drive or server? I'm looking for a fast, efficient way. Currently, the developer goes to the Web page and does "Save As" and copies down the HTML. This is inefficient since it pulls down all the images, css stylesheets, etc that we don't need on our server.

Answer 1

For the list you want to archive, just create a datasheet view, and, when you are in the datasheet view, you can right-click and export to Excel.



There is also an export to Excel button at the top of the custom list view.



And, if you want to do this with file library or picture library, you can open the list in Explorer view, and you can drag and drop to a local folder that way.

Answer 2

you should be able to access the underlying file-system, so if your sharepoint site is http://sharepoint1/site you could copy everything under \\sharepoint1\c$\site.



there's also a .net sharepoint API that may allow you to do backups using c# or vb.net.



if you just need one page from the site, you could use the 'curl' command to get the page like 'curl http://sharepoint1/site', or 'wget' util can probably pull down everything on the site.

Answer 3

Dam quickly you have been. shame on him hiding them in his pants, How could the babies locate their eggs if no longer hidden the place they'd locate them. you probably did sturdy ole guy. :D =))