Warrick reconstructs lost websites from cache data found on the web, more specifically through search engines like MSN, Google, Yahoo, and the Internet Archive. Warrick is a command line utility started by a student at Old Dominion University for his thesis on lost web sites. The recovery process is most effective when Warrick is used within the first few days after the website is deleted. Unfortunately Warrick doesn't work on pages that haven't been crawled and indexed, so newer pages may not be able to be recovered. I don't know just how useful Warrick is, since I am not in the special circumstances it requires to test it (all of my websites are safe in their kennels), but it certainly is a unique idea for ripping your website files from cache files that are hanging out with Casper and his friendly ghosts. If only Warrick could find that one file you had with lottery numbers from the future, so you could cash in. Dang!
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