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I am a firm believer that the time I spend on my calibre library is worth a bit of space for backups.
Cleaning up tags, ensuring the metadata shows what I want and the other information about the books is important enough to me that I keep a full backup of the library.
I normally do a rar of the entire library directory (with calibre closed of course) and name it by library name and date.
While many seem to think this is wasteful in terms of disk space, and that incremental backups work well, I am afraid I am of the school of thought that simple, full backups are easier to restore. Multiple backups, dated, will allow me to go back a few weeks or months to a point before an error occurred if necessary.
If your library is larger than a dvd (greater than 4 gig) then it may be necessary to save it to another drive or a usb drive or even a large sd card.
You can also save a copy of your library to the cloud.
I guess the main reason my backups are all in rar format is that I want to be sure I don't switch to my backup and start updating it and then switch back to the original.
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