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Originally Posted by zin
Tonight I will test your comment on point 3. If you're right, you might have just saved me a lot of effort playing with book covers. I essentially have two near-identical file structures: The old one with no metadata.db, but all the cover.jpg files, and the new one with a correct metadata.db and no cover.jpg files. I can copy the old one over the new one (just the jpgs!) and they should go in the correct places. There are more than 1000 cover files, so it's worth a try. I will of course make copies before trying this.
Also, on the backup/restore part of the discussion, just based on my near-catastrophic database problems, I agree with dwanthny completely - the only way to back up this database is to backup the entire database. Disk space is cheap.
Thanks again for the info/advice.
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I personally think calibre should have a built in backup that backs up metadata.db every time you open calibre for lets say five times it won't be foolproof but in case of metadata.db corruption it could ask if you want to use an older version and save many headaches.
I personally use dropbox so thats backs up the metadata.db for me automatically.