User Guide

TOPIC G

Creating a Backup Copy of a Web

You planned your web, produced your web, and you have published your web. It’s time to

create a duplicate copy of your server-based web and store it somewhere locally (on your hard

drive, a local area network, or a removable storage media, like a CD or tape).

Having a duplicate copy of your web will provide you with “disaster recovery”—such as the

accidental deletion of webs. The duplicate also gives you roll-back options; if for some reason

you want to return to an earlier version of a web, you can publish the backup copy. In short,

backing up your web is a smart hedge against potential problems. It provides peace of mind.

Create a Backup Copy of Your Web

Procedure

Reference:

Creating a backup of a server-based web is nearly identical to publishing a

web for the ﬁrst time. The only difference is that you will need to change the

publishing location. To back up a server-based web,

Open the web you want to backup.

Choose File→Publish Web.

Change the To option and enter the publish destination that will store the

backup copy. (Again, if you are publishing the backup to a new location,

FrontPage asks if you want it to create the web there. Click OK to accept

the offer.)

Change Options, if desired.

Click Publish.

Either view the published backup copy, view the publish log, or click

Done to return to the original web in FrontPage.

Lesson 5 Follow-up

In this lesson, you ﬁrst learned how to create and complete web-related chores, or tasks, that

need to be done. Then, you learned how to organize ﬁles in a web by moving them from the

root directory into each of their appropriate folders. Next, you learned how to use the Site

Summary report to observe a web’s current condition, in order to make adjustments for trans-

fer sizes and to weed out old, unused pages. Then, you learned how to correct a broken link

using FrontPage’s Hyperlinks Report feature. Next, you used FrontPage’s text editing tools to

spell check an entire web and used the Find And Replace command to substitute one phrase

for another. Then, you learned how to publish a completed disk-based web to the Personal

Web Manager. Finally, you learned how to publish a server-based web to a folder (local folder)

on your computer, resulting in having a backup copy of your web made.

1. When organizing a web, would you consider it more important to organize your files as

you go, or after you are finished? Why?

Answers will vary.

LESSON 5

Lesson 5: Preparing and Publishing a Web

Reference Material

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