At some point about seven years ago....I had a blog which I wrote and was on a Yahoo site. One day...the Yahoo management folks announced that rather than going to the next version or updated version of the blog feature from Yahoo....they were dumping all blog content/capability——period. They gave everyone about 90 days notice. I sat there....kinda peeved...but accepted it. The thing was....they hyped up and talked about a down-load function which they would put up and allow you to take your old blog with you....to another site.
So I waited, and waited, and waited, and waited.
About seven days prior to the end....they said sorry....they couldn’t make the down-load function work....so you were basically screwed.
I sat for an entire weekend....copy page by page in some text file....probably sixteen hours of my time to save three years of a blog. I was angry, with thousands of others who had used their service, and I would have even paid for the blog capability (a reasonable amount)....but they had no interest in developing some pay-back system.
From my prospective...the top level management have no idea how to run a company, or make a profit. Even for a simple email account....you ought to be paying them $20 a year for the service, instead of a free option as it is today.
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/the-ultimate-wget-download-guide-with-15-awesome-examples/
Humans should think. Machines should work.
I'm perfectly OK with Gmail. No reason to be paying $20 for what should be free.
Of course, if you've got an NSA problem, then you should be using something else. Or at least something else on top of Gmail.
If you've got a body of content you want to show the world, you should host it locally on your own hardware. Then you should buy a domain name, host it somewhere, and sync your local version to the hosted version whenever it changes. That way, if the host goes south, for whatever reason, you don't lose your content, but instead, you rehost it somewhere else! Or, if it's really hot, let the likes of Wikileaks or Cryptome mirror it!
The bottom line being, you always have a full copy in your possession. That way, no need for wget!