10-03-2008, 09:56 AM | #1 |
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Abandoned attempt to use calibre with SSH mounted drive
Some of you may know about my quest to maintain my calibre database in the cloud. I've tried everything. I had been trying to use an SSH-mounted drive to place my entire calibre database remotely. This sort of worked, but was always very slow. On Windows, using Sftpdrive, it was sort of okay, on a Mac with Expandrive (using MacFuse) it was terrible.
With the introduction of the latest version of calibre, wherein Kovid has changed the application to use a file system for the ebooks and a metadata database, things improved on Windows, but not on the Mac. Plus I would continue to get I/O errors, dropouts, and general instability. After much frustration, I've given up that effort. Now I just use DropBox. I put the library in a 'library' folder on my Dropbox share and let it do its thing as I add/delete/update books. It's much easier, the application is now as responsive as it's supposed to be, and I don't have to worry about maintaining a constant network connection. I would still like to see a version of calibre that implemented a more network-capable database driver, but for now I am happy! The only problem I have with Dropbox is the 2GB barrier. I already have my own Amazon S3 and could use that, but Dropbox doesn't support custom buckets. Does anyone know of a background synch program that works with your own Amazon S3 account? Or a background synch program that works with SFTP? |
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I use unisync over sftp to keep share my library across my two primary computers.
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I tried it earlier and it was a colossal failure. It's a great backup solution though. |
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Here is something that I was looking at before I decided to go with TimeMachine on OSx. I may trial it just to keep my documents in sync between my PC and Mac, $24 a year for 10gb isn't to bad. They have a free trial for 30 days. http://www.sugarsync.com/ Maybe you might want to give it a wack. BOb |
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Thanks for the suggestion. That looks about the same as Dropbox. What I would like is a way to sync to my own Amazon S3 or SSH-mounted remote drive. SugarSync and Dropbox are nearly the same in that they go to their own data repositories.
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10-03-2008, 11:52 AM | #7 |
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I've been using an NFS drive for my database. No problems thus far.
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10-03-2008, 05:00 PM | #8 |
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The simplest non-real time solution (provided you can be sure that only one person is going to be using the central database location is to create a simple wrapper script for launching calibre with rsync)
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#!/bin/sh rsync myserver.net:/path/lo/library/folder /path/to/local/copy calibre rsync /path/to/local/copy myserver.net:/path/lo/library/folder |
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10-06-2008, 09:46 AM | #10 |
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So far DropBox is working fantastic for me. I've used rsync in the past and I've never had problems with it, so I may look at that again. The problem is that I would have to set up a different process on each OS that I work with (Two Mac boxes, Windows, and Linux). Dropbox just work right now without having to do a bunch of configuration. But thanks for the suggestion!
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