Hello! thanks for reading, I would like to solve this issue.
So recently my computer has oxygenated, therefore i lost my computer- now I have a new one. I cant access my hard drive yet, and I have alot of projects there especially my netlify ones.
I would like to download my own website which i have access to in my account, but I do not know how, it is already deployed. is there a way I can download a deployed build? i would really love to get my website back. I would be super glad if i get it back in .zip compressed form , I deployed the website in a .zip. If thereās a way let me know! If there isnāt , too- would be sad however
Hi , Similar question, I had a hard drive crash and lost the website data that I moved across to netlify. I , was using RStudio and blogdown. Can I perform a reverse of this ā¦that is, is there anyway I can download that information from netlify in a form that I can re use in Rstudio? Following the instructions above does indeed allow a download, but the files are not exactly those I uploaded. I wish to recover exactly those that I dropped into āDrag and drop your site folder hereā. Thanks
First, the bad new is that we probably donāt have a copy of the siteās source code.
We donāt do a site build when the drag and drop method is used so the download deploy button should allow you to download exactly what was uploaded. However, if the deploy was successful, it also probably means only the results of the source code was uploaded to Netlify after blogdown was done processing the source. So, the output of blogdown was uploaded and not the source code itself.
Iād be happy to confirm if the source is available. Which site is this for? (Or sites, if there is more than one?)
I also want to mention one way particular way to prevent data loss caused by local hardware failures, which is is to upload your source code to a third-party Git hosting company, such as (in no particular order):
GitLab
Bitbucket
GitHub
I believe all have a free tier of service as well.
This would mean that, if a local hard drive crashes, you would still have the most recent āpushā of your source code with whichever Git service is used.
Thank you Luke for your reply.
The site is https://www.ejobrien.com/. It is quite simple so will not take me long to rewrite it blogdownā¦if I have to. I will have to learn how to use Github for saving the source code as I do in fact use it for programming in R.
Appreciative of your help
I took a brief look at the deployed files and I do not see the source code there. Iām still hopeful that the files which are there will be helpful in resuming development of the site.
One last note, I found this rather comprehensive tutorial for connecting RStudio with Git:
I havenāt used this tutorial personally but it does appear to cover the topic quite thoroughly.
Hi, @akibeulah, and welcome to the Netlify community site.
That screenshot is from the deploy overviews page and the download deploy button will not be found there.
The download deploy button can be found inside an individual deploy. Please click on an individual deploy and you will find the download deploy button on that page.
Hi, @advertronics, weād be happy to research this to see if we can find a root cause and solution. Would you please send us a link to the deploy which cannot be downloaded?
