Lesson 11
 

Back it UP.. Back it All UP...

Backing up your web site is one of the most important task you need to perform. 

Data loss is PAINFUL and often unnecessary.  To protect your stuff back it up to a separate location. In FrontPage you can back up your site by *publishing it* to the backup media.

1. Choose Publish Web

2. Open the web you want to back up

3. Select File, Publish Web to open the Publish Web and Publish Destination dialog boxes.

4. Enter the path In the enter the Destination Field, type the location where you want to back up your we.  You can click the browse button and navigate to the location; FrontPage fills in the path for you.

5. Click the Open button to choose your folder.

6. click the ok button to get things started. You may be prompted to create a web in the location you chose; if so click ok There are other options you can specify when *publishing* a web to backup media.

7. Click the Options button in the Publish Web dialog box; the Options dialog box opens and expands to show a list of publishing settings.

8. Decided whether you need or want to publish all pages or only those that have been changed recently.  If you are backing up for the first time, select ALL PAGES.  The publish options are set by default to check for difference between the pages you are publishing and the pages that might exist at the destination folder.  They also log the publishing details to a text file by default, so that you can view them later in case there's an error.  When you finish with these settings click OK.

9. Start the backup by clicking the Publish button in the Publish web dialog box.  A backup of a small site should take under a minute.  Larger sites lengthen the backup time, but the process is generally fast and pain free. A dialog box with a thermometer-style progress bar appears to show the progress of your backup.

10. When you web is backed up * FrontPage say that the shit has published successfully*, a dialog box appears click Done to finish.

NOTE: generally speaking your better off backing up to removable media.  If you publish often to a server on the web, you already have a backup: One copy on your computer the other on your web server.  If you lose your web because of hard drive problems or some calamity. You can always open your web live and publish it back to your computer.

To backup your site to another drive:

1. Open your web ( file, open web)

2. In enter publish destination field type the location where you want to back up your website.  ( IF you don't see a publish destination field, Click the change button in the to field of your publish web dialog box.) type in your backup address *URL _ Path* Example: " D:/My Webs/asthewebturns0 " without the quotes.

3. Choose the Options button to choose other options like publish all, or just changed pages.

4. When the web is backed up FrontPage tells you the site has published successfully, A dialog box appears, click done to finish.

To open your web live: NOTE: you can use this feature if you have published your site to a host that has FP. Extentions installed.

1. Click file

2. Click Open Web

3. In Web Name Dialog box type the URL of your live site
   EX: https://members.tripod.com/asthewebturns0

4. When prompted type in your user name

5. When prompted type in your password

6. Once you web opens, choose publish

7. Now publish back to your working drive

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