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Originally Posted by mjart
Today's saying "a little bit of knowlege can be dangerous". Thank you "The Ducks" for some reason calibre doesn't like one of my external hard drives, but thankfully, with your guideness, I was able to back up my main library to another hard drive. Good thing because an hour later I somehow replaced my extensive library with my daughter's very small library when i was trying to merge the two.
When you back up your calibre library does the new back up overwrite the old? Or do I have to manually go in and delete the old back up?
New Problem: before when I went to do a search it listed the books falling within my search criteria, I downloaded Find Duplicates plugin which worked great but now when I do a search all it does is highlight the books meeting search criteria. I hate that! I deleted the plugin but it still just highlights instead of listing the books. Help, Please!!!!
I really liked the find duplicates plugin, was the highlighting a result of that or something else I did? Do i need to start a new thread with this new problem?
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NORMAL (OS file ) backup methods are NOT recommended. Calibre is a 'collection of folders+files' that are indexed in the DB. A simple 'copy' does not correct older entries in the backup.
Use the Export/Import tool found on the Library icon. . It can make sure
all the pieces are together for a 'major' restore.
Don't just
overwrite your old backup. Keep a few
generations (and on different media That can fail without warning)
GIGO does not always happen at once. It may creep in via many paths. Being able to go back 2 (backups) times ago may be needed.