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Old 02-22-2015, 04:36 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by DaltonST View Post
1. It has nothing to do with bytes saved. Not at all. It is all about saving hours and hours a week of backup time for huge libraries with hundreds of thousands of small files that change all of the time due to mass-maintenance of metadata, such that you avoid backing up because of the time it takes. If you make external and verified copies of metadata.db, you do not need to back up the .opf files if it becomes so burdensome that don't back anything up.
And then you have an incomplete library should it need to be restored from a backup.
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