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BetterRed
Oh yes, Beyond Compare does both the comparison AND the synching (+ a bunch of other useful things) and does it very well, I’d like to add.
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But if you want a backup copy of your libraries in the cloud as well as on a local usb drive (as I do), why wouldn't you use the same tool for both destinations (as I do).
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Mostly because of what I read here about NOT to use clouds (Google Drive in the first place) as storage AND synching place for the main calibre library - reportedly, due to library data corruption occurring in the process of cloud-synching which then makes the uploaded version useless for restoring the library from there.
Hence, I was thinking of a „packed“ version of the library (e. g. those part-xxxx.calibre-data chunks when using calibre’s „Export…“ feature) in the hope they would be less prone to corruption when uploaded to and synched with a cloud.
(I have also learned here that the a. m. data corruption was more often than not user-induced: running calibre AND synching to a cloud at the same time. I hope I got it right.)
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Providing the machine you're restoring to has a working version of calibre that supports its import/export feature it should be OK.
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Yes, that is what was on my mind: to be able to restore the main library (if need be) actually onto the same machine on which it got messed up for one reason or another.
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… to an old XP machine, then you'd have to install calibre 1.48
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No XP machine in my case, I am on a Mac ;-)
Many thanks again!