Fwd: Download a whole gopherhole using wget/curl?

There is a professional team of paranoids mostly employed by the Internet Archive who worry about such things. They’re called the Archive Team. Their consideration of the question can be found here: https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Gopher

In the interim treat it as a matter of mutual respect between fellow server operators. I expose port 70 on a Digital Ocean droplet but truly don’t advertise it. If I got pounded repeatedly on bandwidth I’d certainly purge pygopherd without batting an eyelash. The server is there to support my business since I’m no longer a working civil servant getting a paycheck.

Don’t worry about any of the list participants disappearing. We’re trying to keep this alive. If and when an archival snapshot is deemed wise we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.

For now I need to go back to fixing more than a few varied bits...

Stephen Michael Kellat

On Nov 28, 2019, at 12:35 AM, kiwidevelops <kiwidev@kiwidev.xyz> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I want to archive as many gopherholes as I can, just in case any of them one day shut down or their server stops running and would like to know how I can download a gopherhole recursively. I know you can download with curl by using this command:

curl -O gopher://gopher.hole/1/gophermap

But this only downloads the gophermap and if you run it without the "1/gophermap" it throws this error:

curl: Remote file name has no length!
curl: try 'curl --help' for more information
curl: (23) Failed writing received data to disk/application

Does anyone know how to properly back up a whole gopherhole? Thank you!

-Kiwi