# New Setup for Offline Browsing ZIP File Backup

2025-05-11 - [54] 2:22

For about 9 months now, my Website and Gemini capsule data has been available to browse offline. I posted about this in August of last year.

My Site Is Now Available Offline

Until today, my ZIP file generation script was a python script that created a new ZIP file each and every time. That's not efficient, especially because I was repeating work each time by including every file anew. Well, now I have fixed that problem! Only files that have changed will get added, updated, or removed from the ZIP file now, saving a LOT of work and a LOT of processing time. On my raspberry pi server, it would take well over a minute to generate the ZIP file each and every time, but now it's only a few seconds or less.

As a result of the change, the directory at the root of the ZIP file is now just `vigrey.com/` instead of `vigrey.com-YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ/`.

Also, instead of using a complicated python script, I'm now using a bash script and the `zip` command. This all feels a lot cleaner to me. All in all, I'm pretty darn happy with the progress I have made on my Website, Gemini Capsule, and Git Forge, and backup ZIP file handler. It all feels a bit like Spring cleaning to me.

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