How to back up your work in the Wizard

From HostBaby Wiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Hostbaby saves daily backups of your web content. However, if you are making a lot of modifications to your site, you may wish to make manual backups of your work as you go. That way, if you change your mind after making a modification, you can restore your content to the way it was. Here are a couple of backup solutions.

1. Backing up the HTML files

If you browse your site, you can save snapshots of your HTML files. Here's how:

Program Command
Mozilla Firefox File-Save Page As
Internet Explorer File-Save As
Safari CTRL-S
Google Chrome CTRL-S

Limitations: This command will save the HTML file(s) to your PC or Mac including the text and images. However most of the template and formatting data will not be saved.

2. Saving HTML code from within the Wizard

When you make changes and save them in the Wizard, it is not easy to undo those changes and revert back to previous work. However, you can make manual backups of the raw HTML code from any Wizard page containing a Toggle Editor window. Here's how:

  1. Log into your wizard
  2. Click on the page you wish to back up (e.g. Homepage Layout)
  3. In the Toggle Editor, click on the Edit HTML Source button (next to last button marked HTML on the toggle editor). An HTML Source Editor window will pop up showing all the raw HTML code for the web page contents.
  4. Select all the HTML code (CTRL-A)
  5. Copy the code (CTRL-C)
  6. Paste the code (CTRL-V) into a text edtior (e.g. Notepad, Text Edit, etc.)
  7. Save the text file. Give it name and a date.

If you ever need to restore the Wizard web content to something you have backed up, simply reverse the process:

  1. Back up the current page using the steps above
  2. Open the text file you created in step 9 above
  3. Select all the code (CTRL-A)
  4. Copy the code (CTRL-C)
  5. Open the Wizard
  6. Open the page in question
  7. Click on the Edit HTML Source button to open the HTML Source Editor window
  8. Clear the contents of the HTML Source Editor window
  9. Paste the backed up code into the HTML Source Editor window (CTRL-V)
  10. Click Update
  11. Save and preview your work. If it is good, publish the changes.
Retrieved from "http://hostbaby.org/wiki/How_to_back_up_your_work_in_the_Wizard"
Personal tools