File Archive Utility

Use this utility to download a compressed (zip) file of the current archive directory

Directory to archive
Action

Archive utility* - as each content file is uploaded with the "upload utility" or the "Online Editor" a copy of the content file is automatically archived in a specific archive directory on the remote web server. The archive utility enables administrators to download the complete archive directory as a single compressed file (zip) for backup purposes. The utility is designed to handle multiple archives but at present only one archive - named archive - exists on this web site. Therefore there is no selection mechanism, simply click on the archive button and the total contents of the archive directory (copies of all uploaded files since the last purge) will be compressed into a single file and downloaded to your local computer. A window should open in your browser to indicate that the selected file is downloading to your machine. At this point you should be able to indicate the location to which the file is saved.

To view the contents of the file you will need a "decompressor" application capable of decompressing "zip" type files. These are available as "freeware" for both Windows and Apple Macintosh from the internet (e.g. http://www.stuffit.com/win/expander/). Once the archive is decompressed on your local computer you should then have a complete copy of the whole of the remote web server's archive directory available for examination.

The naming convention of the files found in the archive is important as this may help researchers seeking a specific archive file. For example:

the contents file for the Darts team (Darts.shtml) that was uploaded to the remote web server on Monday 9th April 2007 was also simultaneously archived and at that time given the unique name 09042007082955Darts.shtml. The numeric content of this filename records the precise moment the file was uploaded thus making it unique even though there may be several generations of the file uploaded in quick succession - often the case during iterative editing. In this example we see that the content file Darts.shtml was uploaded to the remote web server on 09/04/2007 at 0829 hours and 55 seconds.