I believe the current address is http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/ris/documentation/archiving/archiving_websites.htm

 

I back up my own Website www.mybestdocs.com by regularly creating and naming a blank file using the date in the file name, e.g., <bu-mbd060725> in a backup directory on my C-Drive, then publishing my live Website to that directory/file using MS FrontPage, which is fine for my purposes. I keep it there and also simply copy that file to a DVD in case -- I should say for when -- my PC hard drive dies someday when I least expect it. It is then possible at any time to open that file in FrontPage and republish it as a whole or examine/edit any page/sub-page within the Website. I don't do that, because I use such backups for archival snapshots of my Website reflecting major changes in content or design. But it would be possible to do so, something that anyone concerned about maintaining the integrity of archival versions of a Website would want seriously to consider.

 

For institutional purposes, I would recommend an open source product such as Heretrix http://archive-crawler.sourceforge.net/ used by the Internet Archive, rather than a proprietary software product such as FrontPage, Acrobat, etc. Alternatively, a good enterprise content management (ECM) system that is 5015 certified would also work and provide at least the minimum recordkeeping functionality, if not more.