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Old 06-19-2012, 09:36 AM   #6
kiwidude
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I've had theducks in my ear with a suggestion which prompted something I would rather discuss here...

What about backup/restore of such settings if they are stored in the library? I've not personally had a need to to rebuild my library in 2 years of calibre, but there are users who have, either via disk corruption or doing silly things like killing calibre processes / rebooting while it is writing to disk etc.

Putting these settings in the calibre library will potentially put them at a higher risk of corruption. And unlike rebuilding from calibre's .opf files, there would (I assume?) be no means of restoring them, other than a user being disciplined enough to have a recent and uncorrupted backup of the metadata.db?

Any thoughts on this? So unlikely as to not be an issue? Or could there be some mechanism added to calibre's backup/restore functionality to similarly backup the settings into a file in the root of the library folder alongside the library?
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