Mirror site using wget

Download entire https://shylysmiling.github.io/ site:

wget --recursive --timestamping --level=inf --convert-links --page-requisites --no-parent --force-directories https://shylysmiling.github.io/

Notable options:

• --convert-links enable converting remote links to local relative links in HTML documents after downloading finished.
• --no-parent forbids to look up parent directories.
• --force-directories enable creating folder hierarchy instead of downloading all resources to one flat folder.

Search for all options at man 'wget(1)'.

Create backup of personal data with zip

List paths you want to include to archive in includes.txt file.

The asterisk (*) is important for selecting all directory content.

/home/kelly/Documents/*
/home/kelly/Pictures/*
/home/kelly/Projects/*
/home/kelly/.profile
        

List paths that must not be included in excludes.txt file.

/home/kelly/Projects/*.o
/home/kelly/Projects/*.a
        

Run the archiver.

zip -u -y -9 -r /home/kelly/backup.zip /home/kelly -i@includes.txt -x@excludes.txt

Notable options:

• -y force storing symlinks instead of dereferencing it.
• -r enable recursive directories traversing.

Search for all options at man 'zip(1)'.

Mount archive with GVFS

Ensure that GVFS is installed.

Locate the gvfsd-archive executable inside /usr.

find /usr -name gvfsd-archive

It's found at /usr/lib/gvfsd-archive in my distribution.

Mount the /home/kelly/backup.zip archive using previously founded program.

/usr/lib/gvfsd-archive file=/home/kelly/backup.zip