Thread: Backup Calibre desktop to Portable?
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Old 12-17-2018, 10:23 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by CapitalGGeek View Post
I thought I would kill two birds with one stone - backup my data, and have portable on a thumb drive for my wife & daughter to use.
As @BetterRed mentioned in post #3, just do a one-way mirror from your normal Calibre PC install (master) to Calibre Portable on thumb drive (slave) using one of the file sync tools. I highly recommend FreeFileSync, too.

Never do a 2-way sync. That's a recipe for disaster.
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