@Thorvald: Yeah, it’s for the better that I’m downloading my site assets, and the drawings will be fine too since I can just reupload them again on an “emulated version” of my portfolio, not sure if you can emulate a site you want to keep on another website, him.
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Nihilina Gloomee
Archiving a bunch of site assets for my porfolio site in my repo for my website
18 Jan 2024, 06:04 PM
It's mainly just in case something wonky happens again, at least the assets are also in my fc2 blog too, but it's mostly just a precautionary thing I want to do, I'll make a separate repo for my portfolio site assets as well, mainly to keep me a little more sane and less frustrated as a whole. (Thankfully I don't have to worry about fc2 going down or anything, you'll never nowadays.)
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Posted: Friday, 19 January, 2024 @ 06:03 PM
@N0-11: There's archive.org of course, though it's not foolproof—B*zzly's JS-heavy architecture basically prevents saving anything but the front page. A Civ2 personal site lost its host server last year and a fellow modder mirrored it on GitHub, so I now understand what you said about using Git as a server. :p
Several years ago when my Internet was spotty, I literally copied a site to disk so I could reference it offline. Turned out fortuitous as the domain lapsed a couple years later and was never rehosted—I know the owner through dA and said if I'm ever in the US I can hand-deliver the backup. 
Posted: Friday, 19 January, 2024 @ 09:11 PM
@Thorvald: I use Gitea and Codeberg for my repos, Gitea is for personal ones that might seem too edgy for Codeberg, (including some art Codeberg might not like tbh, and I wanted to use Git to make my own server because Gitea is blocked for downloading on my laptop. Codeberg is mostly for trying to run my own little link-tree inspired page for personal websites too.
It's never too early to back things up. I still have nightmares about Wikkii—I was fortunate enough to have data-dumped (almost) everything a year before the site went down for good, and had a few later article drafts saved separately, but images and categories were wiped completely, and most people never reuploaded their files despite my pestering. :x