Frequently Asked Questions

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How can I help?

See Who We Are, Deathwatch, and Category:Projects_status. These pages describe our projects and the things you can do to help.

Is the Archive Team affiliated with the Internet Archive (archive.org)?

No. A few members are affiliated, but majority of Archive Team members are volunteers who help while not busy at work or school.

Why is ArchiveTeam crawling my site / disrespecting robots.txt?

A detailed manifesto is located at Robots.txt. Please read it first and contact us through IRC (described in a answer below) before making harsh actions. We cooperate!

If you notice the crawler's user-agent is "ArchiveBot", please see ArchiveBot.

How should I go about backing things up?

What would you like to back up? If you want to mirror/backup a website, the de facto tool is Wget (but there's lots more, see Software!). WARC files are highly recommended as they can be ingested by the Wayback Machine.

If you want to back up your personal files, "List of backup software" at Wikipedia is an extensive list of backup software. See Backup Tips as well!

Where do all the saved files go?

Files are ultimately uploaded to Internet Archive on the Archive Team collection. Archive Team relies on Internet Archive for storing the files.

What are these WARC files in the Internet Archive? How do I extract files from a WARC file?

WARC files are de facto medium of digital preservation of the web. These WARC files are ingested by the Wayback Machine. WARC files are not simple zip files; they're designed to record metadata.

There is a growing number of tools that can manipulate WARC files in The WARC Ecosystem.

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We Are Not The Internet Archive

How do I upload something to the Internet Archive (archive.org)?

You can either use the HTML5/Flash uploader or use an alternative method.

Can someone remove or fix something on the Internet Archive?

Possibly. Keep in mind that majority of Archive Team are volunteers who are not affiliated with the Internet Archive and requests should go to staff instead. If strenuous circumstances arise, please see the question about contacting Archive Team below.

How do I get the original file on the Wayback Machine?

Add id_ after the date in the URL. For example: web.archive.org/web/20090119040418id_/http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

How do I search the contents of the Wayback Machine?

You can't unfortunately. However, the Internet Archive provides API access (designed for programmers and power users) to the Wayback Machine and to the CDX database.

Why does the Wayback Machine follow robots.txt in a way that I don't like?

Because it makes the lawyers go away. We're not the Internet Archive. Don't ask us, ask them.

Can I upload $COPYRIGHTED_THING to the Internet Archive?

Although the Internet Archive prefers freely-redistributable content, they also accept still-in-copyright things. If there's a valid complaint/DMCA takedown request, they'll simply make the item private, but they will not delete the data. Having said that, the Internet Archive is not The Pirate Bay, so please don't treat it as such.

Can I save big files with the Save Now feature?

No, files larger than 200 MB will not be saved correctly.

How redundant is Archiveteam?

Is there a backup of the data on the archiveteam.org website? If so where can I download it?

Two sets of backups of this wiki are available. There are backups done by the hosting provider (several, going back days and weeks as well as hours), which use the storage capability of the shared hosting to keep them automatically (no tape or disk backups being done as most people would think of them). There are similarly copies of the database kept going back months.

Additionally, an XML dump of the Mediawiki database (which can be imported into any MediaWiki software) is accessible at http://www.archiveteam.org/dumps. New backups are currently pushed out once a week (and will be increased if changes on the site require it). All images are also wrapped into a images.tar.gz file.[1] Our entire images directory is available at http://www.archiveteam.org/images.

Dumps of the ArchiveTeam Wiki are generated with WikiTeam tools and uploaded to the Internet Archive quite regularly. You can find them here and newer ones here.

Is there a mirror of the archiveteam.org website?

There are no mirrors we know of, although we encourage our more paranoid or protective readers to maintain one based on the above dumps.

Who are y'all?

Does Archive Team have any social media accounts?

Follow us on Twitter: @archiveteam, @at_warrior, /r/archiveteam and like us on Facebook. These accounts are run by selected volunteers and may not be monitored for questions.

(There is a Google ArchiveTeam group but it is not used.)

Who's the administrator?

For a list of administrators, see Tracker#People which has a table at the bottom of the page.

I went through the wiki and I still have a question! How do I contact the Archive Team?

Join us on IRC! (All channels and info listed here.) For general inquiries, visit #archiveteam on EFNet. Email can be sent to archiveteam@archiveteam.org.

This wiki is not monitored for questions.

If a FAQ should appear here, please add it.

Notes

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