How to backup website?

[fenomenalb]

I need to make major changes to a website. However I would like to backup all
current pages for potential reference in the future. I cannot find identify
where I'd be able to do that using Contribute. Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
F.

[ThinkInk]

There is no back-up functionality in Contribute in the way you describe at this
moment.
So you will have to use a FTP-program (Filezilla is free) to download the
complete site from the server.
What is possible in Contribute is to save previous versions (enable Rollbacks
in the admin section) of the pages (saved as .bak).

[nco_editor]

I manage the content on my newspaper's web site, but am not an expert user. I
asked the web designer who built the site to update the links in the sidebar of
the templates, and one of the pages was overwritten with an old file and I've
lost 5 months of links to articles from our paper. Apparently there were two
pages named Communities, but one had a lower case c and one had a capital C.
Contribute allowed both to exist without warning about duplicate names, but
when the developer downloaded the files to update the template, one file
replaced the other. Grrrr! Is there any way to retrieve the lost page? It
doesn't exist on my hard drive anywhere... I'm learning the value of backing up
files.