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Old 12-28-2014, 03:46 PM   #71
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The program you're using now is behaving in an unsafe manner; it's evidently simply getting a read lock, and not an exclusive lock, on the files it's trying to copy, and when backing up a SQL database such as the one that Calibre uses this is dangerous, because you could well be backing up the file with potentially uncommitted data. This is the same issue that causes people to end up with a corrupted Calibre database if they put Calibre on a network drive.
I just make sure I am not running multiple copies of Calibre on the same library. Network issues aren't issues if you do that.
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