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Is it possible to 'reverse' download - for lack of a better phrase - your website after uploading. I lost my hard drive and while I was able to backup my website files, the files are more than a month old and don't include the latest changes that I uploaded to my website just two days ago. Is it possible to download those files from my website server and install them in my Xara Designed Pro X to make it up to date.
Thanks for any help.
No. The best you can do is to load the assets into a new document. You can't recreate the Xara document from the HTML. Sorry.
SteveMG, clearly a published website will hold a variety of graphics that you can recover.
If you have an FTP program, Filezilla, you could get to the index_htm_files folder to access then from their server location.
If not, you can get these, page by page, using Xara > File > Import text and graphics from web.... It places most of the graphics and text in their original place quite well.
You will not be able to fetch MouseOver images (toolbars), links and groups or any other layer information with this approach.
If it were me in this position, I would get printouts of all pages and layers and sit down with any of your older source xar files and try and recreate each change from the visual clues.
I would use Chrome and right-click Inspect Element to examine each item in detail to establish its behaviour and links.
I suffered similar once before and found the above was the only recovery that worked.
Since then, I save all my xar files to DropBox (automatically) and export my Site there too so I can work from wherever I have a Xara program.
I also upload to the Website's server, Amazon's S3 and USB sticks just to keep my paranoia on a knife edge!
Failing all this, advise your Website URL and you may find enough support from TalkGraphics members to reconstruct your pages once you have rebuild a template page!
Acorn
Another thing you can do is upload your .web files to your host server..each time you update the site,, that way you always have a copy available ..
Thanks for all the help. The import function is the easiest way to re-build things. I was surprised as to how much of the original if imported. The text needs to be re-done but all of the image files can easily be re-positioned. It's going to take me a good week or so but not too bad.
As someone mentioned, be sure to back things up EVERY time you make changes. It doesn't take long and will save you if things go wrong.
Again, thanks for the help.
Many of us have been there....:'(
Solutions
Google drive syncs like magic to all devices and is cheap $5 for 100gb 2gb free IMO the best of whats out there
I suggest you change your files and xara back up location folder to the drive you never will lose them plus access from anywhere if you need e.g desktop to lap top
For me also i have a 2TB external drive with Acronis true image 13 (about $50) that mirrors my Google drive and programmes of my computer 2 times a day but this can be set to back up any time you want
If you get a Hardware failure you can re install all programmes on the same computer with Acronis at a click no serial numbers needed simple - but hopefully I will never need to
Scruffy
As someone who has suffered this recently I can assure you it is soul destroying. I do the following to files in general.
A monthly backup to DVD
File saved to a separate partition on hard drive
File uploaded to our hosts servers
File uploaded to clients servers
Files saved daily onto external hard drive
I have looked into using an online autosync service which creates a folder on your laptop/pc and any changes in this are replicated automatically to a folder in the cloud, but I just don't know whether to trust these services, you just have to look at megaupload (many legit users lost a lot of work) and jotform (due to a handful of users the whole service was taken down by the usa government and the service was down for a day or so) to see what could happen, imagine being a business like ours (printing and web design) and not having access to any client files.
I for one will always backup to something physical in my control.
Dropbox, Google Drive or SkyDrive.Quote:
Originally Posted by skech
All legit and trusted by millions of businesses.
All my client invoices go to a dropbox folder on my HDD which auto syncs to the cloud. I can send the URL to an Invoice to my customer who can download a copy of the invoice at any time.
For me, I usually put the file on my host server plus a backup to a portable drive. With those 2 options, it would be difficult not to have at least one good backup available should my primary hard drive die on me.
I opt for saving the files to a password protected area on my server, to a backup partition on pc and also to NAS (in garage). Looking at Cloud storage as an alternative to the existing NAS. Not that im paranoid but last year i lost my desktop and my laptop to a electricity spike from a lightning strike........now i have belkin surge protectors everywhere!
Hope you got it sorted Steve
Had that happen to me in 03/2012. It's truly depressing. I had not done an intentional backup but stumbled on a backup I'd done a few months prior when I reloaded the OS. That got me through the worst of the disaster. Now I have a compressed file on the web server with the web site (Thank God for Xara's small file size!) and one each on Google & Skydrive that are synced.
Best of luck!