Online Save, Backup on PC, Schedule backup software

[XENO]

Hi,
I have a non-TiddlyWiki question.
I have a Tiddlywiki at TiddlySpot, and want to schedule a download to
my pc (using some Free software ) in order to backup the tiddlyWiki.
Any suggestions?

[Eric Shulman]

> I have a non-TiddlyWiki question.
> I have a Tiddlywiki at TiddlySpot, and want to schedule a download to
> my pc (using some Free software ) in order to backup the tiddlyWiki.

Scheduling an automatic download for some particular *time* wouldn't
accomplish much:

Unless you have given your password to others so that they can make
changes online, your TiddlySpot-hosted document *does not change*
except when YOU edit it... and you can always use "save to web" and
then "download" (after reloading) to get a local copy whenever you've
actually changed the document.

-e

[FND]

> I have a Tiddlywiki at TiddlySpot, and want to schedule a download to
> my pc (using some Free software ) in order to backup the tiddlyWiki.

I assume you're on Windows, so then you could use Scheduled Tasks[1] and
something like Wget for Windows[2].
Shouldn't be hard to set this up - but don't hesitate to ask if you need
further assistance.

HTH.

-- F.

[1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308569
[2] http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

[XENO]

I have heard of Wget before ( thanks to http://www.lifehacker.com )
but trying it now I have a problem, how do i set it up to get through
the password at TiddlySpot?
Thank you
C

[Simon Baird]

try rtfm. from wget docs:

--http-user=user

--http-passwd=password

Specify the username user and password password on an HTTP server. According to the type of the challenge, Wget will encode them using either the "basic" (insecure) or the "digest" authentication scheme.

--
simon...@gmail.com

[XENO]

it seams my problem is with setting up the command in the "Scheduled
Tasks" for Wget, I cant seem to get the tiddlyspot to download, can
someone suggest the proper command to write? What I have now is:
"C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\wget.exe" -http-user=USERNAME -http-
password=PASSWORD http://USERNAME.tiddlyspot.com
which does not work...
Thank you
C

On Feb 11, 1:58 am, "Simon Baird" <simon.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> try rtfm. from wget docs:
>

> *--http-user=**user* *--http-passwd=**password* Specify the username
> *user*and password
> *password* on an HTTP server. According to the type of the challenge, Wget

> will encode them using either the "basic" (insecure) or the
> "digest"authentication scheme.
>

> On Feb 11, 2008 8:05 AM, XENO <chaosmagn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I have heard of Wget before ( thanks tohttp://www.lifehacker.com)
> > but trying it now I have a problem, how do i set it up to get through
> > the password at TiddlySpot?
> > Thank you
> > C
>
> > On Feb 10, 10:57 pm, FND <F...@gmx.net> wrote:
> > > > I have a Tiddlywiki at TiddlySpot, and want to schedule a download to
> > > > my pc (using some Free software ) in order to backup the tiddlyWiki.
>
> > > I assume you're on Windows, so then you could use Scheduled Tasks[1] and
> > > something like Wget for Windows[2].
> > > Shouldn't be hard to set this up - but don't hesitate to ask if you need
> > > further assistance.
>
> > > HTH.
>
> > > -- F.
>
> > > [1]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308569
> > > [2]http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
>
> --

> simon.ba...@gmail.com

[Simon Baird]

I thinkyou need two dashes, ie --http-passwd...

also you can try the download url (but either should work I would say)

http://USERNAME.tiddlyspot.com/download

[XENO]

Two dashes it is. Its working great, I det it to run when the computer
is idle in the background. It is very slow though, propuly because
wget isn't going through the proxy, any way to set this? All i can
find in the wget docs is about proxy password, and no-proxy, but not
how to set the proxy itself.
C

On Feb 11, 3:35 am, "Simon Baird" <simon.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thinkyou need two dashes, ie --http-passwd...

> also you can try the download url (but either should work I would say)http://USERNAME.tiddlyspot.com/download

>
> On Feb 11, 2008 10:53 AM, XENO <chaosmagn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > it seams my problem is with setting up the command in the "Scheduled
> > Tasks" for Wget, I cant seem to get the tiddlyspot to download, can
> > someone suggest the proper command to write? What I have now is:
> > "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\wget.exe" -http-user=USERNAME -http-

> > password=PASSWORDhttp://USERNAME.tiddlyspot.com

> --
> simon.ba...@gmail.com

[Bob Paige]

I haven't been following this thread until now, but how do you know
when you need to backup the wiki? If it doesn't change often (YMMV)
excessive backups would be causing extra traffic for no reason.

Is there some way to check the 'version' of the wiki before backing up?

--
Bobman

[FND]

> wget isn't going through the proxy, any way to set this?

I haven't worked with Wget much myself, so I don't know.
However, the first Google result for "wget AND proxy" looks promising:
http://tinyurl.com/2k7buc
(http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-use-wget-through-proxy/)

> Is there some way to check the 'version' of the wiki before backing up?

I imagine checking the respective file's last-modified date against the
most recent backup should do the trick.
Not sure whether Wget can do this though (see above).

-- F.