Backup / Export Your Google Site

Judging from this thread, the inability to easily backup/export a Google Site has been a problem for awhile. Thankfully there's a tool on Google Code you can use to grab a local copy. The tool is pretty simple, but the documentation is not entirely clear. Here's what I did for my simple site, which is private:

• Host: sites.google.com
• Domain: [leave blank]
• Webspace: [the last part of domain name path; if the domain name is http://sites.google.com/site/mysite123, this value would be just mysite123]
• Import/Export Revisions: [I left this unchecked]
• Username: [my Google account, with @gmail.com at the end]
• Password: [the obvious]
• Choose Target Directory: [the obvious]

Here's Google's blog post that talks about the issue a bit more.