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Originally Posted by shalym
I'm just saying that making a blanket statement of "backing up an open database will cause corruption" isn't necessarily true.
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I agree, with you, and if you look back at my posts you'll see that I didn't make any such generic statement. What I said specifically was that copying a database such as the one that Calibre uses (ie a file-based, not server-based, database) while an application has the database open was an unsafe practice, and that's a statement that I 100% stand by. You'll probably get away with it the majority of the time, but it is nonetheless not a good idea.