# Simple, Lasting Way to Mirror a Web Page
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-lasting-way-to-mirror-a-web-page/623536
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 30, 2012, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-lasting-way-to-mirror-a-web-page/623536 "2012-05-30T12:32:29Z")
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### Author:  [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-lasting-way-to-mirror-a-web-page/623536/1 "2012-05-30T12:32:29Z")
I would like to mirror somebody’s blog posting, including embedded pictures. Ideally the mirror should be able to stay up forever. What’s the simplest easiest way to accomplish this?
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-lasting-way-to-mirror-a-web-page/623536/2 "2012-05-30T12:43:23Z")
There’s no such thing as ‘forever’ - web hosts can go out of business, etc, but your best shot is probably:
Obtain their permission to do this (the content is theirs)
Procure hosting that features ssh shell access
Set up a script to spider/copy their site (I imagine there are ready-made scripts for this out there), and schedule it with cron or similar
Set up some sort of managed trust fund that will pay for the hosting in perpetuity.
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### Author:  [@M.Constant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/M.Constant)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-lasting-way-to-mirror-a-web-page/623536/3 "2012-05-30T13:27:42Z")
Well, if you have access to a linux box you could do a ‘wget -r the\_website\_url’ to snag the current content. Any links to offsite content would remain links and therefore could grow stale. So that would require either manual intervention or a custom script to pull in the remote content and link it in properly.
For any OS most browsers have a ‘save page as’ option that might work well enough for your purposes. It would then just be a matter of finding somewhere to host it.