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Sirtel · 12-09-2019, 08:50 AM

I actually do it the other way, keep the main library in Dropbox and mirror copies for backup on my main PC and several external hard drives. I do take care to check the library almost daily for duplicates, empty books, conflicted copies etc. And I don't have Dropbox running on the background or starting with Windows. I fire it up only for syncing.

I need that setup because I want to use Calibre on two computers (including editing books and metadata) and there is nothing else that would do the trick. The content server would require both PCs to be up and running, as you can't run the server on a sleeping PC. Also you can't use plugins and many other functions with the server.

I tried with a flash drive, but that's very slow and error-prone. Ditto for network drives. Dropbox works better than anything else I've tried.

12-09-2019, 08:50 AM	#3
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,616 Karma: 241126341 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	I actually do it the other way, keep the main library in Dropbox and mirror copies for backup on my main PC and several external hard drives. I do take care to check the library almost daily for duplicates, empty books, conflicted copies etc. And I don't have Dropbox running on the background or starting with Windows. I fire it up only for syncing. I need that setup because I want to use Calibre on two computers (including editing books and metadata) and there is nothing else that would do the trick. The content server would require both PCs to be up and running, as you can't run the server on a sleeping PC. Also you can't use plugins and many other functions with the server. I tried with a flash drive, but that's very slow and error-prone. Ditto for network drives. Dropbox works better than anything else I've tried.