Thread: Microsoft is taking back ebooks
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Old 04-10-2019, 07:55 AM   #62
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
These days, with free and paid cloud storage services all over, there is no excuse for losing an ebook library. Multiple copies on different services costs little effort.

If you're really paranoid about cloud services, large flash drives are plenty cheap so again, backing up the files to multiple drives including one off-site is only due diligence. Investing US$20 in a 128GB drive (or $50 for a 1TB portable HDD) is only sensible if you want to protect hundreds or even thousands worth of ebooks.

No valid excuses left.
Yep. I have my calibre directory backed up in a number of ways
1) it lives on a Drobo raid drive, meaning if a disk goes bad, I don't lose anything
2) I back it up weekly to a local Drobo network drive.
3) I back it up weekly to my dropbox cloud storage
4) I sync it weekly with my laptop

Profession photographers like to say that their pictures are only safe if they are backed up in three different locations. I know some who back up on a local raid drive and then on two different cloud storage providers.
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