Posterous Backup

Posterous.com is due to shutdown at the end of April 2013. If your after a simple way to backup a Posterous site the below command will download your Posterous site as static html

wget -r -l inf -k -E -p -nc http://yourblog.posterous.com/

The options used are:

• -r recursive
• -l inf infinite depth
• -k suffix html files with .html
• -E update the saved files with links to local files
• -p download page resources
• -nc don’t redownload urls more than once

This command won’t download all images (ones hostes on a different CDN) but it will download the majority of your site fine