Held Hostage by a Web Hosting Service

[Fishing Geek]

An associate of mine is in the uncomfortable position of being literally held hostage by their site hosting company (a large one, at that), due to an argument regarding whether there was unscheduled downtime last night. At one point the web host actually shut down the site, and it was only after some begging that it was brought back up.

The web hosting company has changed the admin FTP login and password, and has disabled SSH root access. The site uses UBB Classic 6.5.0.

Is there ANY WAY that the site can be mirrored before they do something worse, like deleting all of the data? I investigated rsync, but it appears to need to have something running on the server. The whole site is only a couple gigs.

Thanks for the help. This is kind of an urgent matter (as you can well imagine), so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[sharth]

wget, but that won't do server side scripting.

[Magueta]

There's software called SiteSnagger that allows you to go to a website and completely download the entire website if you want. I don't know if it gets absolutely everything but as a last resort it'll allow your friend to get most of the website, unless he has some sort of database or something like that on the server. I can't see you getting in any other way without the authority of the server company. I suppose you can hunt the web for tools and scripts to hack them but I don't recommend that as an alternative.

Joe