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Karl Scherer (Karl)
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Username: Karl
Post Number: 409
Registered: 9-2000
| | Posted on Friday, August 30, 2013 - 1:03 am: | |
Rejoice everybody ! |
Sam Trenholme (Vktj)
New member
Username: Vktj
Post Number: 14
Registered: 7-2013
| | Posted on Friday, August 30, 2013 - 4:40 am: | |
I have already made a full online backup should it ever go down again: http://microblog.samiam.org/ZoG |
Jeff Zeitlin (Jzeitlin)
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Username: Jzeitlin
Post Number: 9
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - 11:06 am: | |
Sam, could you please drop me a line at gmail, username freetrav, telling me how you did it? I'd like to update my collection, but there's no ftp any more. |
As Bardhi (Aepasa)
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Username: Aepasa
Post Number: 8
Registered: 1-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, September 05, 2013 - 3:58 am: | |
Karl,
Thanks for all your submissions!
Cheers,
Astrit |
Sam Trenholme (Vktj)
New member
Username: Vktj
Post Number: 20
Registered: 7-2013
| | Posted on Thursday, September 05, 2013 - 6:17 am: | |
Since I have some bandwidth to burn, this is how to download the Zillions database:
1) Get wget http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
2) Wget is a *command line* application. This means that one has to be familiar with a "cmd" prompt; it does not have a fancy GUI.
3) Once one has wget, here is the incantation for getting the entire ZoG (Zillions of Games) database:
wget -r -l 1 http://microblog.samiam.org/ZoG/
If one wants to have, in addition to all of the games hosted on zillions-of-games.com, Zillions games posted on Chess Variant's web page, Mats collection, Karl's collection, as well as a number of small collections elsewhere on the Internet:
wget -r -l 2 http://microblog.samiam.org/ZoG/
I encourage people to find web hosting to mirror this collection so it does not disappear in the sands of time should the Zillions page go down again. |
Jeff Zeitlin (Jzeitlin)
New member
Username: Jzeitlin
Post Number: 14
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 05, 2013 - 8:22 pm: | |
Sam, thanks for this; after reading and understanding the docs for WGet, I've kicked off a snarf of your ZoG subsite using WinHTTrack, which I'd already had installed. I don't have the web space right now, but I will have this archive - and will attempt to update it regularly from the Zillions site (and have asked for the return of grab-ZoG-games-by-ftp) - stored on multiple hard disks and possibly burned to DVD as well, so that if it becomes necessary, I can supply the archive to someone who has the webspace but not the archive. |
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