Wget may be used to download all or a part of a website.
I have used wget to recover a website where the control panel and FTP were no longer available.
Wget follows referenced links to traverse a website, downloading the files which are referenced.
wget works best with non-dynamic websites accessing static content.
Using wget requires each item to be downloaded to be referenced on the website. How else do you know that content exists?
wget is subject to the rules of the website server regards accessing files. It isn’t possible to download pure programming files such as index.php or default.aspx.
Because the view on the website is downloaded it cannot be used to retrieve all of the files making up the content and structure of a CMS website which is built dynamically.
The code below may be issued to get a website.
wget --no-clobber --convert-links --random-wait -r -p -E -e robots=off -U mozilla http://www.websitename.co.uk
Wget is supported under Linux, Debian includes it within the packages
