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Originally Posted by BetterRed
1. how will droopy know which books are in which archives in the cloud.
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By creating a catalog of the books that have been uploaded to my Google Drive cloud.
In my google drive, I plan to create a folder called Calibre_partial_backup_January_2021. Within that folder will be the following subfolders:
a) A subfolder named PDFs. My PDFs add up to 10GB.
b) a subfolder named CBZ (6 titles; around 2 GB)
c) a subfolder named low_priority_epub_a (10GB)
d) low_priority_b (next 10GB)
e) low_priority_c (another 10GB)
f) low_priority_d (same)
g) low_priority_e (same)
Each subfolder will contain a spreadsheet of the catalogue. And the main folder should probably have a spreadsheet of all these books too.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
2. droopy's problem is lack of space on his single SSD drive, what happens when there is insufficient space to restore and expand one of these archives from the cloud.
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I don't plan to restore/expand all the books that will be in the cloud.
And further, I don't plan to restore even one book that will be in the cloud. I think trimming my current 88GB to even 10 GB will still give me more than I can read in 2 years. (In 2 years, I hope to be reunited to my desktop computer, which has more storage space.)
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
A better solution might be to use Save to Disk to copy the format files of the 'low priority' books to the cloud in an 'Author/Title/' folder structure. Put links to the cloud storage format files in a long text column, delete the format files from the library.
The library would continue to serve as single catalogue. Decisions as to which books to Save to Disk (Cloud) can be made individually (no batching), the books can be Tagged in the database. Format files can be reinstated individually or as a group if they are 'buddy files'.
The 'downside' is that to read a book that has been saved to the cloud one would have to click a link in the Book Details panel and wait for the format to download, but that would be a lot easier than restoring and unpacking archived libraries, etc.
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Hmmm.... that's a lot of work. Let's say I want to trim my 88GB library down to 10 GB. That means 78GB of titles that I have to manually edit metadata for. That's gonna be time-consuming. Don't think that's an option for me.
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Or droopy could buy a 256GB external flash drive and move his library to that  |
There's no need to buy any more hardware. I hope to be reunited to my desktop computer one of these years.
