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NeHe · 12-01-2020, 05:19 PM

Thanks everyone! The environment variable solution above worked great.

I read the section on using a share drive for Calibre, but in this case I am the only one with access to the share, and its hosted on a NAS on the same network segment (not a dropbox / Google Drive).

I need to do this to keep the server system light and modular --- it's being moved to a proxmox based VM running docker containers.

The library content is fairly static and I'd like that to reside on the NAS for redundancy (the nas is mirrored to Backblaze cloud backup). I use the Calibre web server for remote access to the content. I'm not expecting to use the share drive for accessing the content outside of Calibre.

IMHO this is a cleaner solution and one also used by other media server applications, such as Plex -- the content is on a NAS drive and the database is local. Beets Music does something similar for music library management.

Thanks everyone! Happy reading.

--Neil.

12-01-2020, 05:19 PM	#5
NeHe Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2020 Device: Android Tablet	Thanks everyone! The environment variable solution above worked great. I read the section on using a share drive for Calibre, but in this case I am the only one with access to the share, and its hosted on a NAS on the same network segment (not a dropbox / Google Drive). I need to do this to keep the server system light and modular --- it's being moved to a proxmox based VM running docker containers. The library content is fairly static and I'd like that to reside on the NAS for redundancy (the nas is mirrored to Backblaze cloud backup). I use the Calibre web server for remote access to the content. I'm not expecting to use the share drive for accessing the content outside of Calibre. IMHO this is a cleaner solution and one also used by other media server applications, such as Plex -- the content is on a NAS drive and the database is local. Beets Music does something similar for music library management. Thanks everyone! Happy reading. --Neil.