How Do You Archive Web Content After It's Taken Off Site?

I'm going to be working with a group of people who create an enormous amount of web site content. The web site will be constantly changing and they want a way to store, search, and retrieve the content after it's been taken off the web site. The content could be HTML, images/graphics, audio/video, "enhanced" text such as PostScript or Adobe PDF, and anything else that might be used in a large web site.

The users need a way to quickly search Mega/Giga-bytes of data to find information in order to retrieve and modify it. They are *not* technical enough to sit down in front of a UNIX prompt and start typing SQL queries. They'd need an easy, friendly, and quick way to find what they're looking for (keyword searching and/or indexing with a graphical interface would be nice).

I'm looking for ideas on hardware/software solutions. The users have PCs with Win95; I'd like the database (or whatever) to sit on a UNIX box for scalability, speed, and administration reasons. So there should be a way for a user, sitting at his/her PC, to do a search and retrieve from the database.

Any ideas?

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Scott D. Brenner                  AT&T Consumer Communications Services
sbrenner_at_attmail.com                             Piscataway, New Jersey


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