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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Simply manage your calibre library on your personal computer and use rsync to update the library on the server from your personal computer. The script that runs rsync should ssh into the server, stop the calibre-server process and then run rsync and then restart the calibre-server.
And it's on my TODO list to allow the calirbe GUI to conenct to a remote calibre-server instance as a device so you can manage the books on it comfortably.
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This sounds like a good way to do it. It would also mean keeping 2 copies of the data, but I do a backup anyhow.
What I currently do is run calibre-server on my home linux server, but also export the ebook folder as a samba share.
When I want to edit the library I ssh into the server, stop the calibre-server, the run a local gui using the network directory.
Given there are only 2 of us using the server, probably I dont need to stop the calibre server as that isn't going to make any changes to the database.
I'm the only one likely to be making changes to the exported drive. And that can be controlled through permissions.
The only disadvantage of my method is that I need to ensure my ebook directory has opened on the client before running calibre. It takes a while to open and if this has not occurred Calibre offers to make a new library when it opens.