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Old 05-02-2015, 10:54 AM   #19
Katsunami
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I have a workflow to maintain and backup my library. It has changed somewhat over the years, but now it is as follows:

- Download the book from the vendor (ADE, Kindle App...).
- Import it into Calibre, where Alf removes DRM.
- Save the book to disk to keep an unmodified original.
- Do whatever I want to do in Calibre (metadata, fix, convert).

This puts an un-DRM-ed original on my hard disk, seperate from Calibre, and a completely fixed, converted, page-counted, etc... book in Calibre. This process will take me about 1-3 minutes for a newly downloaded book.

Backup is done to three separate hard disks, automatically, one after another, overnight:
- A 3.5 inch desktop hard disk.
- A 2.5 inch notebook hard disk, to be put into my vault.

The third is also a 2.5 inch hard disk, which is stored off-site, and will be swapped periodically with the one in the vault.

I create backups whenever something big changes on my computer, but the minimum is at least once a week. (This backup also contains all of my other data besides books, which is mostly music ripped in FLAC from my own CD-collection, ISO files created from software disks, and game installers downloaded from GOG.com.)

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