[Gary_M_Mugford]

Maggie,

I usually update Calibre and my library on the weekend. Before doing so, I run a batch file that cycles through metadataDB backups. Here's the batch file:

@echo off
REM metafile copy documents
X:
cd \GaryELib
REM The default location for the batch file is now is inside your library with the metadata.db file
if exist metadata.db.7 del metadata.db.7
if exist metadata.db.6 ren metadata.db.6 metadata.db.7
if exist metadata.db.5 ren metadata.db.5 metadata.db.6
if exist metadata.db.4 ren metadata.db.4 metadata.db.5
if exist metadata.db.3 ren metadata.db.3 metadata.db.4
if exist metadata.db.2 ren metadata.db.2 metadata.db.3
if exist metadata.db.1 ren metadata.db.1 metadata.db.2
if exist metadata.db copy metadata.db metadata.db.1

Then I do the weekly Calibre update (kudos to all for having one THIS week!). Having done my work, I then re-run the batch file again. On Sunday evenings, my complete library gets copied over to a computer in my bedroom using Karen's Replicator (soon to change to Toucan). Monday mornings, the X: drive gets backed up to a NAS via Drive Snapshot. And, of course, I have Carbonite Pro backing up everything as it changes to the cloud. My DropBox account is too small to accomodate the library, but I'm thinking of getting a paid account. Having two different cloud services means not worrying about a sole provider changing terms of service, cost, availability, viability, etc.

If I lose something after all of that, it was simply meant to be.

GM