Title: Static Backup
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Static Backup

 *  [crowspeaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crowspeaker/)
 * (@crowspeaker)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-backup/)
 * Does anyone know of/use a utility that will created a static version of a WP 
   site, suitable for archiving? Sadly, I need to take my WP site down, but would
   like to keep a backed-up, non-database dependent version of it for sentimental
   purposes.
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-backup/#post-450486)
 * Why not do a local install of WP on your machine, and thereby have a “backup”?
 *  Thread Starter [crowspeaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crowspeaker/)
 * (@crowspeaker)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-backup/#post-450530)
 * Becuase I’d love to have something I can throw on a cd and still navigate around(
   if possible). I don’t necessarily want it to start up in the root of my local
   machine’s web server.
 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-backup/#post-450544)
 * Perhaps this could be a solution?
 * [WP on a USB stick](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/usb/)
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-backup/#post-450556)
 * google up one of those web-whacker thingies and have it “spider” your site down
   to a local copy? The trick there is with all the various ways WP can show posts,
   you get a rather large static pile of pages. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [crowspeaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crowspeaker/)
 * (@crowspeaker)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-backup/#post-450559)
 * [@handysolo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/),
 * Thanks for the reminder about that. I had thought of it before but it had slipped
   my mind. It’s messy, but it should work for what I want.
 * [@miklb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/),
 * Thanks for that too. A little more work that I’m interested in.
 * If anyone knows of a plugin that’ll spit out static pages, please let me know.
   I’ll keep an eye on this thread for a few days.

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 * Last reply from: [crowspeaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crowspeaker/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-backup/#post-450559)
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