08-01-2011, 12:47 AM | #1 |
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Several questions regarding Calibre Backup
First of all is there a program that will sync with your Calibre Library and back it up as you add books? Will keep your meta data file current as well?
If you copy your entire Calibre folder to a thumb drive, will it save all your meta data and series information? If so, how do you restore it all from a usb drive? If your hard drive fails and your last back up was 4 months ago, can you use your e-book reader to download all your current books to the library and then use a old meta data file to restore whatever information it has? Will it corrupt your current Calibre Library? Thank you in advance for your help |
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The other strategy is just grabbing the Calibre library folder and backing that up somewhere, including the metadata.db file that's in the folders' root. Both strategies preserve what metadata is available at the time you do the backup. Quote:
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08-01-2011, 03:22 PM | #3 |
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From what you stated above if i backup from my older copy, then use the option in the books content menu, to copy the rest of the books, then I will have to manually go in and add the series info and the ISBN information for the rest? Is there a way to then take the series information and make collections in your kindle?
Is there a program that will auto back up your library to a different location as you add books? |
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As for creating collections on the Kindle, I believe there's a plugin out there called something like the Kindle collection manager. Quote:
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08-01-2011, 04:41 PM | #5 |
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There are many sync programs. I use one that runs each night. It syncs my library on my server to a backup on a backup drive. Microsoft Synctoy can do this job. There are dozens of others. Some searching here for "sync" will probably find the threads on this method.
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