Help! Need to download site through the CMS

No luck with modbak, unfortunately. Any other ideas, anyone?

OK, this is absolutely not the best way, but you could use

Website Copier www.httrack.com
This will crawl and download all the assets and html that are live on the site.

At least if you know you have that, you can continue looking for a better solution (i find it lowers the sense of panic sometimes)

This has worked well for me: http://modxcms.com/extras/package/?package=46

The support thread is here: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=26308.0

I uploaded a compression library to the files directory using the file manager since this poor guy got dumped with no ftp or anything, and made a quick-and-dirty module to run the library. It zipped up 245Mb of mostly images in less than 20 seconds. ModBak choked on it.

http://www.phpconcept.net/pclzip/index.en.php

Very simple to use.

Couldn’t use bkupMODx since there’s no way to upload except to the files or images directories, one file at a time using the file manager. This is 0.9.6.1, by the way.

@Susan Thanks for sharing! That was a cool workaround!