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Originally Posted by eschwartz
What is the difference between a metadata cover update and a metadata title update? I've seen some interesting first-time import author mangling myself, depending how the author metadata was originally specified...
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When saving the original, I don't really take metadata into account. I actually expect to never, ever need the originals again, but I just keep them... just in case. They don't take up a meaningful amount of space.
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And regarding snapshotting backups -- I agree, which is unsurprising for a linux enthusiast  and if you check out the link I posted earlier on how I achieve my backups you will see they are indeed file-based, complete backups that can be accessed via nothing more esoteric than a bog-standard file browser.
Although as they are backed by an ext3 filesystem, I am afraid they aren't accessible from any OS. 
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Maybe I should have said "accessible from any computer"
Even if your drives are EXT3, it's simple enough to boot the computer using a live Linux distro and get at your files that way.
What I despise is a 'backup' for which you need to have the original backup program installed to read and recover it. That's useless. A good backup should not put the files into a proprietary backup format.