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Originally Posted by Katsunami
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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You are very organised!
I am intrigued as to why you keep an unDRMEd original on your hard drive separate to Calibre - I wonder if I should be doing this.
