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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Putting your library in a compressed file before uploading may not work. You may not have enough space to do this. And then if you ever want to restore something, you have to download the compressed file and then extract what it is you want. Again, not a good idea. You don't have enough disk space,
Why are you so against buying external storage of some kind? You don't have much of a choice with not enough disk space available.
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I would use .tar file format, because tar does not try to compress a file. Calibre's exported data files are already quite compressed.
Right now, as my original post indicates, I don't have space my entire library. That is why I want to do just a partial backup. And then when it's time to actually upload the data files into my Google cloud account. I plan to ”tar” one or two or three partitions at a time.
As for your last question, it's only if it's absolutely necessary. But right now it seems that there is a way for me to accomplish my goal without having to buy more hardware of any type