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Originally Posted by lazorbeam
Thanks. I do have occasional backups and normally use them when I have to refresh Calibre. I was having a very strange error where everything was apparently corrupted. I ended up having to re-add all my books and it remembered most metadata - title, author, publisher/date, comments, series - but not one piece of custom column data.
The FAQ says it should have, but maybe it was because I wasn't able to select the existing library containing the metadata file and instead had to re-add my books. Maybe?
Your daily backups. Are you doing that manually or did you set up a program to run?
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I use GoodSync to handle backup and restore of all my data. Nothing special for calibre, as far I'm concerned its just another bunch of folders and files. I co-locate, my libraries, configurations, autoadd folders, and other ebook related folders in a common root level directory on my data drive.
I run a Goodsync backup (one-way mirror) job via Windows Scheduler at Shut Down which I do every day. My daily backups are written to an external drive over USB 3.1. So, its pretty quick, not that it matters seeing as how I just did a Shut Down.
I also do a weekly backup to a remote FTP server, that's slower of course, a) because its over the wire and b) its a whole weeks worth of changes. I start that manually either late Sat evening or sometime on Sunday - my phone nags me until I confirm I done it already
Occasionally, if I'm about to do something 'out of the ordinary', I do a daily backup in the middle of the day - manually. FX I did one before I did a major reorg of my video collection a few weeks ago.
Restores are always manual. Hardware issues aside (head crash etc), I've never needed to recover more than a single book, or a related group of books (e.g. yesterdays uploads), and always because a blunder on my part.
And because my backups are mirror images, I can always 'point' calibre at the backup location via Library->Switch/Create.
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