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astrodad · 10-03-2008, 09:56 AM

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?

10-03-2008, 09:56 AM	#1
astrodad Guru Posts: 962 Karma: 568242 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: Kindle Oasis 3, Kindle Paperwhite 1, iPad, iPhone	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?