web spider/domain copy

[maclizard]

Ok, here is my situation. I work for a company which has just switched over to a new web system. The old system is VERY unstable and the database is completely unreadable, yet they want a backup of the old system before they take it offline. I figure that the easiest thing to do would be to launch a spider (or crawler, some people are picky about terminology) that will go through the entire domain and copy the content to flat files. I just need a snapshot of the domain, but I can't find any software to do it in Linux, so I have turned to PHP. Please email any viable solutions to [e-mail], thanks.

[MarkR]

I will not reply by email as that is not helpful to the community.

You may wish to use "wget", although there are many other applications which can you what you describe.

If the database is completely unreadable, how does it work? Can someone not take the trouble to find out how to read it?

Mark